Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 6

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• You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Long, Live And Learn

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

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• The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

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  Mistress, Libertarian, Limits

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• Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

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  Rights, Blood, Liberty

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.96, Penguin

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• If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

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  Cat, Men, Treats

  "The Door Into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 1), 1957.

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

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  Sad, Jealousy, Knowledge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

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  Death, Suicide, Men

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• I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Government, Sick, Police

  "The Robert Heinlein Interview, and other Heinleiniana". Book by J. Neil Schulman, 1990.

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• History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

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  Strong, Atheist, People

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

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• Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

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  Self, Roots, Evil

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

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• Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.

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  Grateful, Smell, Widows

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

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• Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

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  Sex, Men, Breakfast

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• Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.

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  Moving, People, Together

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• Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

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  Sex, Clothes, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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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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• A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

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  Inspirational, Children, Chinese

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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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• Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

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  Baby, Children, Learning

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• The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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  Life, Success, Inspire

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• Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

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  Technology, Engineering, People

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

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• Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

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  Money, Men, Problem

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

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  Money, Men, Honor

  "Time Enough for Love".

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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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• As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.

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  Fighting, Sides, Artillery

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

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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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• There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Choices, Challenges

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.65, Hachette UK

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