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I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.
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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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
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Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible money is a bugaboo of small minds.
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It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.
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Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.
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The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.
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Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.
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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.
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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
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