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Real Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.
- The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine…
- Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
- Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
- To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
- Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.
- Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
- I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... But…
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