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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
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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Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional you have to let them know who’s boss.
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Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.
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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
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Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
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Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
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Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
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The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
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When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you ... it's overwhelming.
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Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
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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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If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.
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Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
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By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
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Faith is intellectual laziness.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.
Robert A. Heinlein
Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.
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