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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
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Naval Officer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.
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In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
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Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
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If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.
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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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Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
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Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.
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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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Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
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A zest for living must include a willingness to die.
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The early worm deserves the bird.
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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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A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
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The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.
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Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.
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