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Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
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There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
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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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From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
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The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.
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Gentlemen, let's go row!
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Men are expendable women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.
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Democracy is a poor system of government at best the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
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Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.
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Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
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Decency is not news it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.
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I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
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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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Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
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