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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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He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
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I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance I am not that sort of fool.
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Faith is intellectual laziness.
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The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
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My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
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What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.
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Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
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Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
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From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.
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Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
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