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Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
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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Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
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In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
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I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
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