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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
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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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses they take years of skull sweat.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.
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The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
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The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
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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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Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
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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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Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
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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?
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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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A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man the very most you can do is kill him!
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Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
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A motion to adjourn is always in order.
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Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
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There is no such thing as luck there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
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