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A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
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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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
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People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
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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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Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
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I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
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You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
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There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who love Nature while deploring the artificialities with which Man has spoiled Nature.' The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of Nature : but beavers and their dams are.
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There is no safety this side of the grave
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Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
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...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.
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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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The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.
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Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
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Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
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