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Democracy can survive anything except Democrats
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
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Butler
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Democrats
Survive
Democrat
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
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Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.
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It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
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Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.
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Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
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Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
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