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• Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

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  Stupid, Government, Three

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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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• There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...

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  Country, Men, Law

  "The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 25), 1967.

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• Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

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  Thinking, People, Fractions

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• A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.

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  Strong, Fire, Judging

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• You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

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  Shapes, Emotion, Foolish

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

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  Animal, Men, Rational

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Tunnel in the Sky”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

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  Inspirational, Life, War

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

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  Men, Littles, Little Man

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

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• Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

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  Men, Sides, Sometimes

  "Double Star". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956.

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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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• Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

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  Cat, Protocol, Kitty Cat

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1985.

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• The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

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  Men, Joy, Lovely

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

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• The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.

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  Feet, Plot, Earth

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• It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

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  Teaching, Leader, Following Your Own Path

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• Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

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  Learning, Math, Shoes

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

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  Brain, Hundred, Form

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Methuselah's Children”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

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  Crazy, Animal, Doe

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• If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

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  Fighting, Judgement, Trying

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• - I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

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  Son, Recipes, Want

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

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  Brain, Religion, Lame

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

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• I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

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  Love, Giving, Essentials

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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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• Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

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  Dream, Atheist, Children

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

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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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