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The early worm deserves the bird.
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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Robert Anson Heinlein
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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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If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.
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In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
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An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
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