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Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
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Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
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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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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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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an intellectual - find out how he feels about astrology.
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I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance I am not that sort of fool.
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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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Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
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I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
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