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Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.
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
Science Writer
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Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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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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The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.
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Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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The stars incline, but do not impel.
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Democracy is a poor system of government at best the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
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I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.
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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
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Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.
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Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
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A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
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It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.
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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
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I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
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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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Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.
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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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