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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
Essayist
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Naval Officer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
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- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
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In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
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Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
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A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.
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It's better to copulate than not.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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War is not violence and killing, pure and simple war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
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There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
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Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.
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Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.
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The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.
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The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
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