In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings … - Robert A. Heinlein

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One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

Robert A. Heinlein

In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

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[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important. . . so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

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Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

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It is better to copulate than never.

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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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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.

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