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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes: Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.
         

Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.


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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

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A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.



It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

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