Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 12

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

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  Looks, Violence, Carthage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The early worm deserves the bird.

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  Bird, Moral, Manners

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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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• Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

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  Eight, Race, Government

  "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 232), 1991.

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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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• Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

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  Long, Patterns, Easy

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• I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

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  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

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  Blood, Liberty, Unalienable Rights

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.96, Penguin

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• Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

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  Money, Cost, Lifetime

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

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  Reading, Ignorance, Self Confidence

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• The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

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  War, Home, Fate

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

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  Elephants, Circus, Wells

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.190, Penguin

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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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  Soon Enough, Life After Death, Evidence

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

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  Men, Sweat, Training

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.94, Penguin

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• Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

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  Sacrifice, Pay, Jolly

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

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