Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 21

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• Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

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  Corporations, Individual, Clock

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.36, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

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  Love, Justice, Majority

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.232, Penguin

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• Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Goal, Victory

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

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• One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

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  Funny Food, Breakfast, End Of The World

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• Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

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  Time, Valentine, Stranger In A Strange Land

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.11, Penguin

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• It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Artist, Obscurity, Use

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• Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Blow, Years

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin

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• When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Railroads

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.

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  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.232, Penguin

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• The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

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  Real, Snakes, Oil

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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• Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

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  Dark, Gun, Clothes

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

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• Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Book, Two, Size

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, People, Volunteer

  Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

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  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

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  Men, Psychology, Nonsense

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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• Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

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  Cat, Ego, Sense Of Humor

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

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  Real, History, World

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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• Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.

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  Jobs, Fighting, Skills

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.265, Penguin

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• In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

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  Breakfast, Evaluation, Chance

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• Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

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  Analogies, Logic

  ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1961). “STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND”

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• Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

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  People, Sense Of Humor, Honest

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• I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

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  Life, Hurt, Laughing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.295, Penguin

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• Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

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  Magic, Way, Collections

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

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• Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

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  Buttons, Bottles, Scientist

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

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• Secrecy begets tyranny.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Political, Secrecy, Tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.32, Penguin

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