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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Self

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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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• 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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• Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

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  Men, Democracy, Assumption

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

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  Stupid, Results, Malice

  "Logic of Empire" (1941).

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• Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

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  Pain, Things In Life, Agony

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

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  Atheist, Cat, Dark

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

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• For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

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  Civilization, Atheism, Polite

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

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  Laughing, Able, Complicated

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 442), 1987.

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• In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

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  Women, Years, Mind

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• There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

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  Girl, Cat, Drawing

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• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

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  Odds, Understanding, Delay

  "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, (p. 334), August 1988.

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• Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

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  Psychological, Stink, Faster

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• The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

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  Liberty, Selfishness, Libertarian

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

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• English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

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  Vocabulary, Way, Tongue

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• The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

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  Country, Fashion, Religious

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• The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

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  Race, Eggs, Space

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