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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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Robert Anson Heinlein
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Lyle Monroe
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Caleb Saunders
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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.
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A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
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My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
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Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
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Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
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Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
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When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
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Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
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Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
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I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.
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