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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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Robert Anson Heinlein
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The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
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Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.
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There are no dangerous weapons there are only dangerous men.
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Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.
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Men are not potatoes!
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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
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I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.
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If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
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Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
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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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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.
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Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
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...a book need never die and should not be killed books were the immortal part of man.
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War is not violence and killing, pure and simple war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.
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If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)
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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
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Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
But, if there ever was a time in history when peace meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
Robert A. Heinlein
But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
