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Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.


Robert A. Caro

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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the m...
ROBERT A. SCHULLER Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added ...
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afte...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Summit or death, either way, I win.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, resp...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of go...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Elephants aren't human but they are very nice people.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you sha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a de...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a c...
ROBERT A. JOHNSON The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has even...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not ins...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN