Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 24

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• Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

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  Order, Growth, Action

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.71, Penguin

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• Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

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  Mistress, Instinct, Forbidden

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

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  Trust, Rate, Sooner Or Later

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Tunnel in the Sky”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

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  Artist, Obscurity, Use

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• I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

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  Knows

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

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• An armed man need not fight.

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  Fighting, Gun, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• There is no safety this side of the grave

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  Safety, Sides, Stranger In A Strange Land

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.228, Penguin

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• The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.

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  Silly, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.135, Penguin

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• Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

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  Funny, Forgiveness, Witty

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• Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

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  Men, Race, Insects

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• We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

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  Hands, Challenges, Brain

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• Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

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  Stupid, Animal, Men

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• Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

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  Success, Stronger, News

  "This I Believe". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

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  Real, Writing, Ulysses

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• Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

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  Sex, Business, Growing Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.

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  Daughter, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.208, Penguin

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• Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

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  Race, Space, Way

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• If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

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  Divinity, Assuming, Satan

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• The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

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  Morning, Years, Week

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• And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

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  People, Laughing

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• It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

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  Lying, Long, Wish

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.29, Penguin

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• He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

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  Sweet, Kissing, Snakes

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.232, Hachette UK

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• Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

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  Want

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

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• It's better to copulate than not.

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• Gentlemen, let's go row!

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  Gentleman, Rowing

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