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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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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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Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional you have to let them know who’s boss.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.
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Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
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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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Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.
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I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
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I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
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