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Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
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
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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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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
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Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
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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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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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A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
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An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
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Sense is never common.
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The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.
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When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.
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Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
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