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Sense is never common.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
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Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
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Butler
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
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A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
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The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
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Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
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A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.
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Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
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Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.
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A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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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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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses they take years of skull sweat.
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Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
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Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.
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You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.
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The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.
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There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.
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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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I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.
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