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In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
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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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
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Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
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Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
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Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.
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I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.
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Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
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Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance the pot could not hold itself.
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A motion to adjourn is always in order.
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Sense is never common.
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Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.
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It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
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How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
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Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
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A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
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Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.
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When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
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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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I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
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