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Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Dinner
Democracy
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Knowledge
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Freedom
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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
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Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
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Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
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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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