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You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.
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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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.
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It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.
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Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.
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Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. Logic proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
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My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
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I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
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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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All my enemies are self-appointed.
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Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.
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Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.
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I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
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We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection
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The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense.
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