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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.
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 is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.
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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
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When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you ... it's overwhelming.
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Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
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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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Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
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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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The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
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Death is an old friend I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.
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When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
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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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Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
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When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses they take years of skull sweat.
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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