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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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• 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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• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

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  Science, Differences, Fuzzy

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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• Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

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  Men, Lazy Man, Progress

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.61, 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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• 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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• 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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• It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

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  Happy, Style, Secret

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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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• 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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• 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 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.

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  Gun, Self, Law

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• Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

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  Running, Children, Men

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• when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

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  Mistress, Looks, Problem

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.329, Hachette UK

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

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  Talking, Prove It, Prove

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

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• Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

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  Sweet, Savages, Gentle

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

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  Intelligent, Men, Law

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

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• Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

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  Running, Events, Frozen

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Rolling Stones”, p.154, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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