Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 25

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• It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

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  God, Fall, Cat

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• I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Cynical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.358, Penguin

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• If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

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  Long, Lazarus, Ifs

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• Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

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  Luxury, Happy Marriage, Ingredients

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• The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

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  Intelligent, Organization, Giants

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• By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.

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  Law, People, Statistics

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

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• No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

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  Thinking, Effort, Comfort

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.394, Penguin

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• If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

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  Roots, Self, Deception

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

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• All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

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  Race, Two, Normal

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

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  Abstract, Sooner Or Later

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• There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

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  Science, Men, Noses

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• There will always be survivors.

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  Survivor

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• I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

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  School, Ethics, Formal

  "Double Star". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956.

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• Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

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  Liars, Men, Wind

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

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  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

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  Zest, Motorcycle, Bikers

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• Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

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  Laughing, So Sad, Humans

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

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• Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

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  Hurt, Windmills

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

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• Specialisation is for insects!

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  Insects

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• With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

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  Life Changing, Eternity, Reason

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.126, Penguin

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• Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.

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  Children, Men, Phones

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

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• It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

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  Women, Gossip, Pieces

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• All men are created unequal.

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  Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• Never cast pearls before swine.

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  Pearls, Swine, Casts

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• Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

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  Small Changes, Often Is, Found

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

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