Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 2

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• Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Friendship, Peace, Hate

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

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• Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Friendship, Love Is, Horny

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• Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Education, Children

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• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Clever, Teaching

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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• Never try to outstubborn a cat.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cat, Trying

  Time Enough for Love "Second Intermission" (1973)

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• Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Nature, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

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  Missing You, Strong, Drinking

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

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• Belief gets in the way of learning.

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  Clever, Believe, Creativity

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.33, Penguin

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• Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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• Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Impossible Things, Done

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lessons, Teach, Ifs

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• Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

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  Two, Mind, Important

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• There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Men, Dangerous Man

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

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• Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Happiness, Fun, Optimism

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.109, Penguin

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• Love your country, but never trust its government.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Love You, Government

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• Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Yield

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

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  Clear Goals, Excellence, Loyal

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

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  Thinking, Issues, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

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  Gun, Society, May

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

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• No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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  Farewell, Childhood, Authority

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• A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Democracy, Wonderful, Responsible

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

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• Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Mind Your Own Business, Ninety

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