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The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.
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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Robert Anson Heinlein
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Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered murder in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be Using deadly weapons within city limits, or Creating a traffic hazard, or other misdemeanor.
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I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
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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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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
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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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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
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Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.
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Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady? I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.
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I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.
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Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
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Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
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All cats are not gray after midnight.
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Was there ever a time when the majority was right?
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In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
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All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
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Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
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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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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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