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Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

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Injustice, Sin, Cruelty

Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.144, Macmillan

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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

Cells, Two Sides, People

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

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Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

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Men, Flattery, Flattered

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

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Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

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Sex, Practice, Skills

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.236, Penguin

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Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.

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Money, Ideas, Care

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.257, Penguin

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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.

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Ignorance, Trying, Fool

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

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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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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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Nursing, Breastfeeding, Doe

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

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

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Guilty, Innocent, Priests

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

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Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

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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.

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Intellectual, Laziness, Strange

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

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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.

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Beer, Dark, Stores

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, 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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Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

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

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Writing, People, Diaries

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

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Consistency, Mind, Logic

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

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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

Butterfly, Giving, Rainbow

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

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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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We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Robert A. Heinlein

Beauty, World, Waste

Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

Robert A. Heinlein

Peace, War, Mean

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

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Born: July 7, 1907
Died: May 8, 1988
Occupation: Science writer
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