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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 motion to adjourn is always in order.
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Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Die trying is the proudest human thing.
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You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.
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A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
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By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
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Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
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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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Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
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In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
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There are no dangerous weapons there are only dangerous men.
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when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
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Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
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Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
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I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
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The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
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