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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 ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for art that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Sovereign, like love, means anything you want it to mean it's a word in dictionary between sober and sozzled.
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Specialisation is for insects!
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Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.
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Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
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Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.
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Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
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From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
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Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.
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Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
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The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
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If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.
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A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
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My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
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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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Never encourage a man to cook breakfast it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
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One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
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Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.
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