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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
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
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The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
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Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
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It's better to copulate than not.
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Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.
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If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)
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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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Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.
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His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
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Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
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An invention is something that was impossible up to then that's why governments grant patents.
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Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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There are no dangerous weapons there are only dangerous men.
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.
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A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
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There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.
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What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.
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Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
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