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Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
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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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.
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I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
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Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.
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Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none men cannot live together without them.
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Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
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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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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
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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.
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History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
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Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
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I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
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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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Men are expendable women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.
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The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
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Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
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