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lil  ·  4518 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Do We Love Quotations?

Hi Brian, I posted your quotation on my blog (w/ reference to hubski as always) and you got this response from "Nadreck":

RAH turned out some beauties. I was a passionate devourer of his juvenile SF novels. Two of my favourites are:

Never try and teach a pig to sing: it's a waste of time, and it annoys the pig. --Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. --Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein)