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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
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Never try to outstubborn a cat.
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He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
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There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.
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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
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A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
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Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
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Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
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Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none men cannot live together without them.
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Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
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Democracy is a poor system of government at best the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
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Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
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It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
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Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
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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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