Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 27

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• The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

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  Space, Made, Crowded Places

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

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• If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

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  Baby, Cutting, Lessons

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.54, Penguin

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• Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

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  Men, Groups, Voters

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.142, Penguin

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• Men are not potatoes!

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  Men, Potatoes

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Starship Troopers”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

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  Gasoline, Enough, Dynamite

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.356, Penguin

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• Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

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  Blind, Instinct, Stranger In A Strange Land

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

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  Interest, Suspicious, Disinterested

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• Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

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  Attention, Ems, Pay

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

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• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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  Life, Evil, Cold

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

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• Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

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  Mean, Like Love, Want

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

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• Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

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  Boss, Littles, Little Things

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• ...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

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  Strong, Jobs, Men

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

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• One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

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  Age, Might, Accepting

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

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• A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

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  Appreciation, Boys, Television

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• If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

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  Funny, Clever, Smart

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye
  open.

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  Taken, Sleep, Eye

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

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• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

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  Moon, Lunch, Mistress

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• I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.

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  Binary, Ten

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

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• Television leaves no external scars.

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  Television, Scar

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

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  Reeds, Logic

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.63, Macmillan

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• He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

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  Summer, Hope, Ambition

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

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• You don’t pay back, you pay forward.

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  Pay

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• Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

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  Ends

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• I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.

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  Believe, Faults, Virtue

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• Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

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  Heart, Law, People

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

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