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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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Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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Never tease an old dog he might have one bite left.
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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered murder in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be Using deadly weapons within city limits, or Creating a traffic hazard, or other misdemeanor.
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Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
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Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
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You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
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Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
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Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
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If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.
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Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
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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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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense.
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
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There is no such thing as luck there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
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Being generous is inborn being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
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Each generation thinks it invented sex each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.
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Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.
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Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
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