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The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
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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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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Do not confuse duty with what other people expect of you they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
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Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady? I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.
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Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
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I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
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Being generous is inborn being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
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