But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in proud to use the title. I wont touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
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Robert A. Heinlein was a 20th-century American author and engineer. Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. Read more on Wikipedia →
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