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I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
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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Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay and claims a halo for his dishonesty.
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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
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How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
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But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.
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Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
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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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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
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Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong' patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.
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Never force an idea you'll abort it if you do.
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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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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.
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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
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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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