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Don't Appeal To Mercy To God The Father Up In The Sky, Little Man, Because He's Not At Home And Never Was At Home, And Couldn't Care Less. What You Do With Yourself, Whether You Are Happy Or Unhappy- Live Or Die- Is Strictly Your Business And The Universe Doesn't Care. In Fact You May Be The Universe And The Only Cause Of All Your Troubles. But, At Best, The Most You Can Hope For Is Comradeship With Comrades No More Divine (or Just As Divine) As You Are. So Quit Sniveling And Face Up To It- 'thou Art God!'

-Robert A. Heinlein

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Don't Appeal To Mercy

Robert A. Heinlein

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Don't Appeal To Mercy To God The Father Up In The Sky, Little Man, Because He's Not At Home And Never Was At Home, And Couldn't Care Less. What You Do With Yourself, Whether You Are Happy Or Unhappy- Live Or Die- Is Strictly Your Business And The Universe Doesn't Care. In Fact You May Be The Universe And The Only Cause Of All Your Troubles. But, At Best, The Most You Can Hope For Is Comradeship With Comrades No More Divine (or Just As Divine) As You Are. So Quit Sniveling And Face Up To It- 'thou Art God!'

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The Truth Of A Proposition Has Nothing To Do With Its Credibility. And Vice Versa.

The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth - A 6 Foot Plot Above Them.

My Old Man Taught Me Two Things: 'mind Own Business' And 'always Cut Cards.'

An Armed Society Is A Polite Society. Manners Are Good When One May Have To Back Up His Acts With His Life.

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