- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time f… - Robert A. Heinlein

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- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert Anson Heinlein (7 July 1907 – 8 May 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century.

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Alternative Names: Anson MacDonald • Lyle Monroe • John Riverside • Caleb Saunders • Simon York • Robert Heinlein

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