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Time Enough for Love (1973)
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Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.
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I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly.
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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool).
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Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
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Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
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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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A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
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A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?
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Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
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Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
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A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
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Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.
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It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.
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Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
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Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
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Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
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No man owns his genes; he's merely their custodian. They are passed to him willy-nilly in the meiotic dance; he passes them along to others through the same blind chances.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Robert A. Heinlein
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Born:
July 7, 1907
Died:
May 8, 1988
(aged 80)
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