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Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.
Then do it.
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"What are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the _facts_?
Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the
stars foretell,'
avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the
unguessable
'verdict of history,'--what are the facts, and to how many decimal
places?
You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue.
Get the facts!"
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No matter how I slice it, we seemed to have picked up energy from
somewhere.
But where? When I went to school, they taught me to honor the Flag,
vote the straight party ticket, and believe in the law of conservation
of energy.
Seems like you've violated it.
-"Methuselah's Children."
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Always yield to temptation, It may never pass your way again.
-The Notebooks of Lazarus Long.
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The meek shall inherit the earth, a 6 foot plot above them.
-Notebooks of Lazarus Long.
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Certainly the game is rigged.
Don't let that stop you;
if you don't bet you can't win.
- Time Enough for Love
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The first way to lie
artistically is to tell the truth--but not all of it.
The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder:
Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it . .
but to tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you
are lying.
-Time Enough for Love.
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The ways of God and government and girls are
all mysterious,
and it is not given to mortal man to understand
them.
-Time Enough for Love.
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It's like the purring of a cat; it just means that
I'm functioning okay, board all green, operating at normal cruising.
- Time Enough for Love.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
-Time Enough for Love.
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We always let water over the bridge
lie where Jesus
flang it; you know that.
-Time Enough For Love
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog,
conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
build a wall, set a bone,
comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act
alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal,
fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Time Enough For Love.
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