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Never tease an old dog he might have one bite left.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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Do not confuse duty with what other people expect of you they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
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In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
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Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
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You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
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God created men to test the souls of women.
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Sense is never common.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
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The whole principle (censorship) is wrong it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
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If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
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Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
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I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger the cat was not
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Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady? I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.
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I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.
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There is no safety this side of the grave
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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