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Robert A. Heinlein
American science-fiction author; b. 1907; d. 1988
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# · Not So Good (17 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Yield to temptation — it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
Time Enough for Love (paperback)# · Not So Good (15 ratings) · submitted 1998 (updated 1999)
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
# · Not So Good (21 ratings) · submitted 1999
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
# · Not So Good (17 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
# · Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy — and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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