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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
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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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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When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you ... it's overwhelming.
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The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.
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Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
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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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How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
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He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
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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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Small change can often be found under seat cushions.
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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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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
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Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
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I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.
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Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
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When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
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We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world there is none to waste.
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