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Never force an idea you'll abort it if you do.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Butler
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.
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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.
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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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Son, the phrase is self-contradictory sense is never common.
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Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.
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Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
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There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.
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Spacemen die if they stay in one place.
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In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
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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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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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As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
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Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
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It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
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