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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
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
Specialization
Insects
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
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Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive they wind up as meat for leopards.
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Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
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It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
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Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
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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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Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible money is a bugaboo of small minds.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.
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He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
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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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My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
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My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
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Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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