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• Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

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  Animal, Men, Rational

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Tunnel in the Sky”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

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  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

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

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• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

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  Inspirational, Life, War

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.

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  Moving, People, Together

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• Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

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  Dream, Atheist, Children

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

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• Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

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  Thinking, People, Fractions

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• The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

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  Men, Joy, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

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  Technology, Engineering, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

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  Death, Suicide, Men

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• Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

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  Time, Men, Way

  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners ch. 15 (1985)

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• Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

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  Rights, Blood, Liberty

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.96, Penguin

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• A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.

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  Strong, Fire, Judging

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• Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

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  Learning, Math, Shoes

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

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  Atheist, Firsts, Principles

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• In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

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  Apologizing, Argument, Turns

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

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  Stupid, Government, Three

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• Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

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  Want, Existential, Accepting

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• Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

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  Cat, Protocol, Kitty Cat

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1985.

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• If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

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  Cat, Men, Treats

  "The Door Into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 1), 1957.

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• Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

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  Sex, Men, Breakfast

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• You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

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  Learning, Long, Live And Learn

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

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  Baby, Children, Learning

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• The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.

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  Feet, Plot, Earth

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• You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

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  Shapes, Emotion, Foolish

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

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  Brain, Hundred, Form

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Methuselah's Children”, p.13, Hachette UK

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