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The United States has become a place where entertainers like Alec Baldwin and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

QUOTES AUTHORS ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Robert A. Heinlein Quotes and Sayings

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.

They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

— Robert A. Heinlein


23 posted on 01/29/2018 9:15:26 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When is it OUR TURN to keep our own money and live our own dreams!!!!?)
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To: Grampa Dave

Great Heinlein quote!


27 posted on 01/29/2018 9:26:25 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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