In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem. - Robert A. Heinlein - Quotesmemo.com

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The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.

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Robert A. Heinlein

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

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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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