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Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.
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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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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Caleb Saunders
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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
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...a book need never die and should not be killed books were the immortal part of man.
Robert A. Heinlein
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.
Robert A. Heinlein
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
Robert A. Heinlein
You don’t pay back, you pay forward.
Robert A. Heinlein
Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong' patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
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I don't know Who is cranking I'm pleased He doesn't stop.
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Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
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The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
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The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.
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Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
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Do not confuse duty with what other people expect of you they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
There will always be survivors.
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I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.
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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
Robert A. Heinlein
God created men to test the souls of women.
Robert A. Heinlein
