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Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
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
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
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Butler
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.
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Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
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Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
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All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
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Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
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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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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
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It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
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There is no safety this side of the grave
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A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
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Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
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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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It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
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Die trying is the proudest human thing.
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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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Never encourage a man to cook breakfast it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
Robert A. Heinlein
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
Robert A. Heinlein
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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