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A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.
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I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
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If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
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You can't conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.
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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
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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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Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
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There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.
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Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady? I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.
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I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
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The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
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In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
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Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
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Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.
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As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
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Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
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Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered murder in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be Using deadly weapons within city limits, or Creating a traffic hazard, or other misdemeanor.
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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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