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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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Never try to outstubborn a cat.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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It's better to copulate than not.
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All my enemies are self-appointed.
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Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
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Being generous is inborn being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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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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I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.
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...a book need never die and should not be killed books were the immortal part of man.
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Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible money is a bugaboo of small minds.
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There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who love Nature while deploring the artificialities with which Man has spoiled Nature.' The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of Nature : but beavers and their dams are.
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Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
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War is not violence and killing, pure and simple war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.
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In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
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Spacemen die if they stay in one place.
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