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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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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you if you don't bet you can't win.
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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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Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
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Never tease an old dog he might have one bite left.
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Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
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Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
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Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
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Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
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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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Die trying is the proudest human thing.
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At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is the will of the people ... but the problem changes only superficially.
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The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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