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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
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
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Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
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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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Never encourage a man to cook breakfast it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
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Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Decency is not news it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.
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An armed man need not fight.
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I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
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As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
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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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Some people insist that mediocre is better than best. They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
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All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.
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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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Sovereign, like love, means anything you want it to mean it's a word in dictionary between sober and sozzled.
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I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
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He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
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If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
