Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
Robert A. Heinlein
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G. C. LICHTENBERG If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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ROBERT J. SAWYER People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romanc...
LAUREN WILLIG If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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DULL KNIFE I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
MORNING STAR I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
NANCY REAGAN I believe there would be people alive today if there were a death penalty.
NANCY REAGAN The people in Barrow thought we would starve.
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CORETTA SCOTT KING If they are removed, you can bet they were removed for a good reason.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Validation...If it were food, one could starve.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Jewish vampires: Starve me to death? Seriously? Then what?
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ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.
SUZANNE COLLINS Feed you faith and your doubts will starve to death!
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SALLY RIDE To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
PEARL S. BUCK A brook would lose its song if God removed the rocks.
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DAN RATHER We can't leave them out and leave them to starve or freeze to death,
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JOSEPH PALAIA Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they...
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CHARLES DICKENS Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I came, I saw, she conquered."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
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