Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 11

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• When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

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  Travel, Space, Far Away

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• Faith is intellectual laziness.

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  Intellectual, Intellectual Laziness, Laziness

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• When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

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  Unbearable, Knows

  "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 7), 1958.

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• Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

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  Appreciation, Men, Genius

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

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  Men, Wife, Impossible

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• An armed society is a polite society.

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  Atheist, Gun, Society

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

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  Play, Want

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• The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

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  Responsibility, Differences, Safety

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• Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

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  Psychological, Stink, Faster

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• Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

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  Men, Prison, Solitary

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• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

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  Art, Poetry, May

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

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  Prohibition

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.70, Penguin

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• No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

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  Dream, Science, Mad

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.41, Penguin

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• The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.

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  Cutting, Use, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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• Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

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  Old Friends, Doe, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.369, Penguin

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• Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

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  Learning, Mean, Experience

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

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  Sex, Technology, Computer

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

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  Necks, Should, Monarchs

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 108), 1985.

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• Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

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  Looks, Violence, Carthage

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• The early worm deserves the bird.

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  Bird, Moral, Manners

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• I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.

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  Believe, Past, Levels

  "This I Believe", 1952.

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• When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

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  Dog, Doe, Needs

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

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  Coffee, Java, Stage

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• Sense is never common.

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  Common

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.38, Penguin

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• The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

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  Understanding, Ignorant, Three

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