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"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
-- Robert Frost

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-- Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
-- Robert Frost

By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
-- Robert Frost

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost

To err is human, to purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton

"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly

It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.
-- Robert Park

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
-- Robert Benchley

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
-- Robert Heinlein

"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
-- Robert Strauss (on conducting)

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
-- Robert Fulghum

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
-- Frank Herbert (Dune)

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
-- Robert Pirsig

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."
-- Robert Benchley

You don't have to flaunt technical ability in order to benefit from it. If you have the capability to play a million notes, and then you play only three notes, that lends an amazing profundity to the three notes you did choose.
-- Robert Fripp (paraphrased)

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Robertson Davies

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

'Love' is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein (Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land)

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)
-- Robert A. Heinlein

"All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered probationary."
-- Frank Herbert (Whipping Star)

"Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price."
-- Lane Frost

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
-- Frank Herbert