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The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
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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The early worm deserves the bird.
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Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.
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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
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A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.
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You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.
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The whole principle (censorship) is wrong it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
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A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
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I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.
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Faith is intellectual laziness.
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Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.
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