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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
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
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Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when peace meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
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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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My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
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The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
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Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
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To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
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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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I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
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Some people insist that mediocre is better than best. They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
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The early worm deserves the bird.
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English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
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You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
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He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
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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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