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A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.
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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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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Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
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If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.
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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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Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
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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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Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
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The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.
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A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
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Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
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From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.
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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
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