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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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• There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

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  Thinking, Population

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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.

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  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!

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  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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• 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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• In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

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  Fighting, Order, Survival

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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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• I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.

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  Men, Cards, Matter

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.14, Hachette UK

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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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• Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

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  Running, Zest, Giving

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• 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.

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  Long, Patterns, Easy

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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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• Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

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  Real, Taste, Electrons

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

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  Art, Philosophical, Sunset

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.93, 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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• The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

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  Science, Vices, Vice Versa

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.231, Penguin

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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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• Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.

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  Love, Romantic, Enough

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.201, Penguin

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