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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
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Naval Officer
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
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Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
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Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.
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A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
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How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
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It is better to copulate than never.
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Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.
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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
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In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
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Television leaves no external scars.
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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
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Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
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Behind every mystery lies another mystery.
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I don't know Who is cranking I'm pleased He doesn't stop.
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I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.
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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you if you don't bet you can't win.
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There are no dangerous weapons there are only dangerous men.
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Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
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