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Robert A. Heinlein

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." Robert A. Heinlein
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"The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just." Robert A. Heinlein
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." Robert A. Heinlein
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"I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes." Robert A. Heinlein
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"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip." Robert A. Heinlein
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"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship." Robert A. Heinlein
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"People usually believe anything that they are told early and often." Robert A. Heinlein
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"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere." Robert A. Heinlein
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"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." Robert A. Heinlein
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly." Robert A. Heinlein
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"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed." Robert A. Heinlein
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"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." Robert A. Heinlein
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"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once." Robert A. Heinlein
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"If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat." Robert A. Heinlein
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"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way." Robert A. Heinlein
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"How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven." Robert A. Heinlein
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"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen." Robert A. Heinlein
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"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics." Robert A. Heinlein
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"Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts." Robert A. Heinlein
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"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." Robert A. Heinlein
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"What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A" Robert A. Heinlein
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