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Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by 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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Robert Anson Heinlein
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Lyle Monroe
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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
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In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
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From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
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