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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
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Naval Officer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Faith is intellectual laziness.
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Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.
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Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
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Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
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Democracy is a poor system of government at best the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
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Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.
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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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Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
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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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In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
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It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.
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Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
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