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The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.
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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Do not confuse duty with what other people expect of you they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
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Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional you have to let them know who’s boss.
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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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Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
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Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.
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Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
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Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.
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You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
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Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
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If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.
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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
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I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.
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I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
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Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
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Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an intellectual - find out how he feels about astrology.
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