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Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
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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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
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Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
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Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
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