Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 7

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• Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Time, Men, Way

  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners ch. 15 (1985)

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• In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

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  Tolerance, Different, Moral

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• The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

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  Government, Contracts, Make Sense

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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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Moving, Past

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.159, 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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• A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hate, Science, Men

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

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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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• God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Mind, Religion

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Baby, Men

  "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 188), 1950.

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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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• More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People, Worry

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Tunnel in the Sky”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

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  Want, Existential, Accepting

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• First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

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  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.401, Penguin

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• An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

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  Fighting, Animal, Spirit

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

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  Freedom, Mistress, Being Free

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

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  Dog, Might, Tease

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.19, Penguin

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• Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

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  Socialist, Bloody

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• I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Religion, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.121, Penguin

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• I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Things In Life, People

  "Famous Quotes About Sex" by Ron Grisham, March 18, 2017.

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• How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

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  Ideas, Firsts, Delusion

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.22, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• ...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

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  Communication, Practice, Revolution

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• The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

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  Atheist, Firsts, Principles

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• I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Latin, Saws, Seems

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

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  Military, War, Winning

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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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