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Never try to outstubborn 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
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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Lyle Monroe
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Do not confuse duty with what other people expect of you they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
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A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man the very most you can do is kill him!
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There will always be survivors.
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The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
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In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
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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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A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
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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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A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.
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Son, the phrase is self-contradictory sense is never common.
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I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
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Sense is never common.
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Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
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A zest for living must include a willingness to die.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
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You can't conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.
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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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Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.
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