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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: civic-duty, civic-responsibility, inaugural-address, politics
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    Ronald Reagan
    “As government expands, liberty contracts.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: government, political-philosophy, politics, scope-of-government
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    Robert E. Lee
    “Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.”
    ― Robert E. Lee
    tags: bullying, means-justifying-the-ends, moral-courage
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    Robert E. Lee
    “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”
    ― Robert E. Lee
    tags: war, warfare
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    Robert E. Lee
    “I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
    ― Robert E. Lee
    tags: inspirational, leadership, self-control
    225 likes

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    Robert E. Lee
    “I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.”
    ― Robert E. Lee
    tags: abstemiousness, drinking
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “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.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: rah
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: freedom, law, morality, rules
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    ― Robert Heinlein
    tags: efficiency, laziness, morning-people, progress
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    “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
    ― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
    tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: challenges, children, luxury
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    tags: condescending, income-tax, pay, taxes, tyranny
    658 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: humor, true
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    Louis L'Amour
    “The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
    and you miss all you are traveling for.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    Louis L'Amour
    “For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: reading-books
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    Louis L'Amour
    “No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    Louis L'Amour
    “The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    Louis L'Amour
    “The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    Louis L'Amour
    “A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
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    Louis L'Amour
    “If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, The Man Called Noon
    tags: advice, homor
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    Louis L'Amour
    “To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    Louis L'Amour
    “I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    Louis L'Amour
    “A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa
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    Louis L'Amour
    “I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, The Quick and the Dead
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    Anne McCaffrey
    “A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.”
    ― Anne McCaffrey
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    Anne McCaffrey
    “Necessity breeds solution.”
    ― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger
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