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Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
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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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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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
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Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
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There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't
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Behind every mystery lies another mystery.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man the very most you can do is kill him!
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
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I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
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