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Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
Specialization
Insects
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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
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In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
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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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I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
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Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.
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