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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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The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
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Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
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It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.
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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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Sovereign, like love, means anything you want it to mean it's a word in dictionary between sober and sozzled.
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At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is the will of the people ... but the problem changes only superficially.
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Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
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Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
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