Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 15

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• The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trouble, Conspiracy

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Powerful, Flower, Aphrodisiac

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

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  Children, Brave, Matter

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.107, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

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  Mother, Brother, Giving Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Birth Control, Family Reunion, Genealogy

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• Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Religion, Moral

  "Time Enough for Love".

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• A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Determination, Science, Astrology

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.235, Penguin

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• Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

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  Fall, Airplane, Sky

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

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• Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

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  Sex, America, Earth

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• Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.

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  Way, Be Kind, Vote

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.303, Penguin

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• Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

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  Being Generous, Perversity, Generous

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

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• The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

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  Tired, People, Accomplished

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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  One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Engineering, Usa

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Sex

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.321, Penguin

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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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  Writing, Hands, Ashamed

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

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• In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

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  Moving, Insects

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

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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 by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

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  Grief, Fall, People

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• It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

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  Education, Honest, Lawyer

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

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  Nice, Religion, Citing

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.

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  Stars, Ignorance, Grandmother

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• The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

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  Self, Groups, Morality

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• The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

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  Congratulations, Self, Hymns

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.227, Penguin

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• If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Blow, Intelligent, Application

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Hands, Disaster

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Has Beens, Ifs

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.103, Penguin

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