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Being generous is inborn being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
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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It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
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...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.
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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when peace meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
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A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
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I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
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All my enemies are self-appointed.
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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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If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.
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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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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
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Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
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A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
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English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
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It's better to copulate than not.
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