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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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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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Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
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The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.
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Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
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A zest for living must include a willingness to die.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.
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A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
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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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Being generous is inborn being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
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The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.
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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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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
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Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
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Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.
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An invention is something that was impossible up to then that's why governments grant patents.
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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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The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
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Sense is never common.
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