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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
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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Naval Officer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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Lyle Monroe
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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance I am not that sort of fool.
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Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.
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