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Results of search for Author: Robert Heinlein - Page 2 of 5
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What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"

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That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
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