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Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance the pot could not hold itself.
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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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.
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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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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
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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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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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Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
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Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.
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I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
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Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
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Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.
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It is better to copulate than never.
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an intellectual - find out how he feels about astrology.
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