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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
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
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A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
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I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
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It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
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I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
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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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God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.
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Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
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Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
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Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.
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Sovereign, like love, means anything you want it to mean it's a word in dictionary between sober and sozzled.
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Sense is never common.
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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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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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Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
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Never force an idea you'll abort it if you do.
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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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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
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The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.
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Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
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Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.
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