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It is better to copulate than never.
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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
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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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- 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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The whole principle (censorship) is wrong it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
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Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
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Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys it's more sanitary.
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My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
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Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
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Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you if you don't bet you can't win.
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Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
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Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an intellectual - find out how he feels about astrology.
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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
Robert A. Heinlein
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense.
Robert A. Heinlein
