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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.
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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
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I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.
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A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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...a book need never die and should not be killed books were the immortal part of man.
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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
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Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.
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If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.
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I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
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