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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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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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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
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Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
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Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.
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A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.
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I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
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Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
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Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
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The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.
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Never try to outstubborn a cat.
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