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Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
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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I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
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Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
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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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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
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From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
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Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
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When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
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Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.
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There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.
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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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Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
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If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.
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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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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.
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...a book need never die and should not be killed books were the immortal part of man.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
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Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.
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