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Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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  1. Robert A. Heinlein _ The Green Hills of Earth

    You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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  2. Robert A. Heinlein _ Starship Troopers

    We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget-but the nuggets
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  3. Robert A. Heinlein _ The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

    Can a machine be so frightened and hurt that it will go into catatonia and refuse to respond? While ego crouches inside, aware but never willing to risk it? No, can't be that; Mike was unafraid – as gaily unafraid as Prof."
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  4. Robert A. Heinlein _ Starship Troopers

    We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.
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  5. Robert A. Heinlein _ Farnham's Freehold

    All men must die, it was their single common heritage. But a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man."
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  6. Robert A. Heinlein _ Friday

    A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong---and you are strong. The great trouble with religion---any religion---is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask in at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason---but one cannot have both,"
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  7. Robert A. Heinlein _ Variable Star

    When there's nothing else you can do, breathe slower. There's no way it can hurt, and it might help.
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  8. Robert A. Heinlein _ Have Space Suit-Will Travel

    I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ."
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  9. Robert A. Heinlein _ Stranger in a Strange Land

    I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.
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  10. Robert A. Heinlein _ Stranger in a Strange Land

    Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes - make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.
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  11. Robert A. Heinlein _ The Door Into Summer

    I was not in bad health {aside from a cumulative hangover}, I was still on the right side of thirty by a few days, and I was far from being broke. No police were looking for me, nor any husbands, nor any process servers; there was nothing wrong that a slight case of amnesia would not have cured.But there was winter in my heart and I was looking for the door to summer. If I sound like a man with an acute case of self-pity, you are correct. There must have been well over two billion people on this planet in worse shape than I was. Nevertheless, I was looking for the Door into Summer."
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  12. Robert A. Heinlein _ Stranger in a Strange Land

    There is no safety this side of the grave
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