Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 15

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• I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ignorance, Trying, Fool

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.136, Penguin

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• Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Retirement, Jobs, Hard Work

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Language, Said, Irrational

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.227, Hachette UK

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• Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Liars, Common Sense, Gone

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Nursing, Breastfeeding, Doe

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

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• War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, War, Simple

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.54, Penguin

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• Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Guilty, Innocent, Priests

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Money, Cost, Lifetime

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

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• Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Bigs, Anything Worth Doing, Bites

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• A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Slave, Can Do

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Laziness, Strange

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin

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• Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Sacrifice, Two

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.241, Penguin

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• Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Religion, Strange

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

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• Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

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  Gratitude, Real, Selfishness

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• Always store beer in a dark place.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beer, Dark, Stores

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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• Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Obscurity, Incompetence, Refuge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.305, Penguin

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• What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, World, Wonderful

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

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• Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

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  Butterfly, Giving, Rainbow

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, People, Diaries

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Consistency, Mind, Logic

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

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  People, Should, Type

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• It is better to copulate than never.

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  Sex

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

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• Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Survival, Needs

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 16, p. 200, 1985.

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• Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Son, Self, Common Sense

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

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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 priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

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  Cells, Two Sides, People

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

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