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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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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive they wind up as meat for leopards.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
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A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
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Die trying is the proudest human thing.
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Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.
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Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
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The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
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I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
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Gentlemen, let's go row!
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I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
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You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
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You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
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Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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