Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 6

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• Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

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  Money, Men, Honor

  "Time Enough for Love".

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• Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

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  Men, Sides, Sometimes

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

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• The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

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  Mistress, Libertarian, Limits

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• I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.

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  Government, Sick, Police

  "The Robert Heinlein Interview, and other Heinleiniana". Book by J. Neil Schulman, 1990.

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• Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

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  Money, Men, Problem

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

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  Self, Roots, Evil

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

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

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  Sad, Jealousy, Knowledge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

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  Inspirational, Children, Chinese

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• - I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

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  Son, Recipes, Want

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

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  Teaching, Leader, Following Your Own Path

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• There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.

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  Children, Choices, Challenges

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

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  Fighting, Judgement, Trying

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• Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

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  Men, Littles, Little Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

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• The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

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  Mind, Swallowing, Action

  "Revolt in 2100" by Robert A. Heinlein, "Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript", 1953.

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• How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

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  Ideas, Firsts, Delusion

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.22, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

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  Strong, Atheist, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

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  Law, Seems

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

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  Sex, Clothes, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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• How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

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  Country, Baby, Men

  "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 188), 1950.

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• Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold

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  Writing, Order, Two

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• Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.

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  Grateful, Smell, Widows

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

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  Government, Contracts, Make Sense

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• Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.

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  Sex, Lying, Thinking

  Introduction to "Cliff and the Calories" in "Expanded Universe" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 355), 1980.

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• To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

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  Numbers, Members, Stupidest

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• You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

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  Men, Conquer, Propaganda

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.318, Macmillan

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