Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 18

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• The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

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  Art, Ordinary, Doe

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• All my enemies are self-appointed.

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  Self, Enemy

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• If possible,
  leave room for your enemy
  to become your friend.

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  Enemy, Rooms, Ifs

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• Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

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  Gratitude, Trying, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.105, Penguin

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• Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

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  Art, Emotional, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.346, Hachette UK

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• In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

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  Mature, Masters, Equal

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

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• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

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  Love, Jealousy, Mistake

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.

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  Men, Unbearable, Nuisance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.138, Penguin

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• In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

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  Variables, Helpful, Problem

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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  Wisdom, Evil, Goodness

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

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• One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

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  Writing, Done, Authority

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

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  Beautiful, Female, Ships

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 452), 1987.

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• Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

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  Should, Heard, Obscene

  Stranger in a Strange Land ch. 35 (1961).

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• Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

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  Life And Love, Winning, Games

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

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• Budget the luxuries first.

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  Luxury, Firsts, Budgets

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

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  Children, Men, Long

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

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• If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

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  Elderly, Experts, Done

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• To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

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  Time, Men, Data

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.24, Penguin

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• Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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  Running, Hands

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• History is never surprising after it happens.

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  Surprising, Happens

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.189, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Uplifting

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• He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that 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. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

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  Brother, Should Have, Knives

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• Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

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  Law, Way, New Ways

  Robert A. Heinlein (1981). “Red Planet”, Del Rey

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• You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.

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  Men, Sea, Giving

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• The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.

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  Bullets, Killers, Strange

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.89, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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