Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 7

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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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• Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

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  Struggle, Race, Golden

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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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• 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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• The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

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  Military, War, Winning

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• First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

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  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.401, Penguin

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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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• Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

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  Socialist, Bloody

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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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• A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

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  Hate, Science, Men

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

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• The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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  Life, Success, Inspire

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• Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

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  Voting, Historical, Majority

  Time Enough for Love "Second Intermission" (1973)

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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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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

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  Freedom, Mistress, Being Free

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

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  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

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  Sight, Giving, Perspective

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

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• Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

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  Running, Responsibility, Government

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.230, Penguin

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• I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

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  Latin, Saws, Seems

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

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  Believe, Mind, Religion

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

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  Believe, Food, Men

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• Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

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  Groups, Moral, Members

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

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• Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group
  without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

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  Men, Groups, Halos

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

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  People, Worry

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Tunnel in the Sky”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.

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  Girl, Moving, Past

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.159, Penguin

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