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#153105 01/02/06 09:35 PM
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, co-operate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

~Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

#153106 01/02/06 11:06 PM
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Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

More precisely, Lazarus Long, one of the main characters in Robert Heinlein's Time Enough for Love

PS. LLest - at present you're classified as a Stranger, but I hope you'll stay with us long enough that this is no longer a strange land...

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No, see, Lazarus Long wrote all these things down in his "notebooks" and Robert A. Heinlein just came along and transcribed them and put them in this book ... grok?

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