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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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All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
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Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.
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Spacemen die if they stay in one place.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
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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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Always store beer in a dark place.
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All my enemies are self-appointed.
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Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
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Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong' patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses they take years of skull sweat.
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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
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Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.
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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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The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
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