Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
mother children opinion
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
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Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.
two mind important
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.
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The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
men conquer propaganda
You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.