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If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
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Naval Officer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses they take years of skull sweat.
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The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.
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The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
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