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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
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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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. Logic proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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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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