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Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
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In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
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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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Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong' patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.
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Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.
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I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
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Never force an idea you'll abort it if you do.
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Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
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Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
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It is better to copulate than never.
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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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A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
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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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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
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Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
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Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.
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Son, the phrase is self-contradictory sense is never common.
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