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• Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Police, Christ, Stranger In A Strange Land

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.346, Penguin

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• Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

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  Thinking, Pay

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

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  May, Lions, Easier

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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  Learning, Libertarian, Young

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

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• If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Talking, Prove It, Prove

  ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1961). “STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND”

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• An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Animal, Spirit

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

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  Heart, Age, Eighteen

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• In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

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  Tolerance, Different, Moral

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• Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

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  Animal, Men, Wisest Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.277, Macmillan

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• I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

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  Country, Thinking, Years

  Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.

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• Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

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  Mother, Children, Opinion

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

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  Understanding, Ignorant, Three

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• The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

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  Science, Vices, Vice Versa

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.231, Penguin

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• On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.

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  Sex, Stupid, Two

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

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• Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.

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  Jobs, Support, Causes

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• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

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  Philosophy, Lunch, Political

  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ch. 11 (1966).

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• I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.

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  Brave, Done

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.203, Macmillan

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• Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

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  Emotional, Logic, Argument

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

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  Men, Working Together, Together

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.42, Penguin

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• I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

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  Firsts, Chance, Obituary

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• A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

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  Life Is Short, Cute Friendship, Asking

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• I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

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  Lying, Way, Shut Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.355, Penguin

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• Behind every mystery lies another mystery.

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  Lying, Mystery, Behinds

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

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• How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

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  Cat, Heaven, Dignity

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

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• ...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Self, Law

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