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A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
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
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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Caleb Saunders
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.
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when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
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Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
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Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
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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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