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Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
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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Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
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That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
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If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
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Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.
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Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
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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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How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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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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Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
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He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.
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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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There is no such thing as luck there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
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when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
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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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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay and claims a halo for his dishonesty.
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Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
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A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
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