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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
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Naval Officer
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
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Butler
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.
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I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.
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