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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
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Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
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Butler
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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Lyle Monroe
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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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I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. Logic proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
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Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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