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Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
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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Naval Officer
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Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
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Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!
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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
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The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for art that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.
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I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.
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Gentlemen, let's go row!
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An invention is something that was impossible up to then that's why governments grant patents.
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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.
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Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!
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From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.
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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
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Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
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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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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.
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