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Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
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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History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
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I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
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I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.
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- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
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I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
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