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Robert A. Heinlein  Quotes
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an...

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If we can use an H-bomb–and as you said it’s no checker game; it’s real, it’s war and nobody is fooling around–isn’t it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives...

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Consider the black widow spider. It’s a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has...

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The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong – but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

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That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don’t ask me about the Front Office’s policies; I...

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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It’s a common failing.

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Supernatural” is a null word.

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How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

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Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has...

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Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

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English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

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He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once.

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Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none.

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Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used...

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Ben, why should anybody want that much power?””Why does a moth fly toward light?

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Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?–TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three...

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As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have…

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If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

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Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

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There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

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I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attention. They can’t. No matter how hard they try parts of their minds are on something else....

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But, do you know, once you get used to it’s rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.

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Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

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I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

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Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle...

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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

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I’m so busy doing what I must do that I don’t have time for what I ought to do… and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!- Son, that’s universal....

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Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector…and miss.

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There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or...

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He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based...

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common sense” told them was impossible.

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Well, didn’t you?

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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

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Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman’s breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

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In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

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His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

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People simplify ‘Apollonian’ into ‘mild’, and ‘calm’, and ‘cool’. But ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’ are two sides of one coin–a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any...

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Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

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Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

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God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

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A hero must hero.

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There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

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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...

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Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.

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Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

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He’s an honest politician–he stays bought.

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