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Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
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
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
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Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys it's more sanitary.
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An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
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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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Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
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Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
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I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.
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Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.
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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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