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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore w...
BECKY ALBERTALLI The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD The athlete himself is supposed to determine how he feels or the doctor, Keith is not a doctor, he i...
PAMENOS BALLANTYNE Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. He's 19 years old, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how he feels about that.
HENRY HALL The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Our goal is to find out what happened, how it happened and [determine] how we can prevent this from ...
JOHN COTTREAU The very first find out whom he really likes and then what he truly loves in them, on an individual ...
ANUJ SOMANY We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out h...
HARLAND BRAUN We're working with industry to find out what should be the content and then determine how much it wi...
DEAN JONES The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless yo...
STEVEN PINKER The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a n...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I was just so grossed out. George and Meredith have a brother-sister relationship. He knows how she ...
KARYN MCQUEEN Two things determine a good classroom teacher. First, he must know how to talk. Second, he really kn...
JECON B. NADELA There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he ...
CALVIN PEETE It's an important day. It helps to evaluate a kid's character, how he feels about us. We show them t...
PAUL TIDWELL I think Bill Bradley has immense personal and intellectual integrity. I think he cares deeply about ...
PAUL WELLSTONE I think Bill Bradley has immense personal and intellectual integrity. I think he cares deeply about ...
PAUL WELLSTONE He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to g...
IRIS MURDOCH king of cups astrology http://www.astrodost.com/king-of-cups-for-love-marriage king of cups astrolog...
ASTRODOST I think he feels terrible about the mistakes he made. He admitted them in open court today and I thi...
JEFFREY STEINBACK Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about do...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs
ANN LANDERS You can never figure out how much an idea is worth,
DEAN SCHROEDER http://www.onlinemarriageprediction.com/ find here Online astrology solutions for marriage, dosha so...
ONLINEMARRIAGEPREDICTION Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about d...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Dignity means that an individual feels self-respect and self-worth.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The intellectual is and only can be a militant, engaged as a singularity among others, embarked on t...
MICHAEL HARDT There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Money does not determine our worth
SUNDAY ADELAJA An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike
SPIRO AGNEW We were shocked to find out how popular he was outside of Boston.
BRANDON STEINER A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth ...
ALICE MARY HILTON There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.
THOMAS FULLER If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS A man that knows your worth doesn't need to be told how to treat you. That's a given! You won't have...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out ...
ANNETTE CURTIS KLAUSE For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, an...
ROBIN GREEN AND MITCHELL BURGESS In the end, what we've been able to determine, factually and by way of actual figures, is a safe min...
JOE CERENZIA He came out healthy. We'll see how he is tomorrow. That will determine what we do next. He threw the...
CURT YOUNG ...my evenings are taken up very largely with astrology, I make horoscopic calculations in order to ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.
PETER SINGER The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. ...
LUCIAN FREUD How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feel...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON He's been feeling this for years, and he doesn't feel it anymore, so he's ecstatic about the surgery...
PETE CARROLL Women should be obscene and not heard.
PAUL MEREDITH POTTER I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.
NICHOLAS DETTMANN An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
SPIRO T. AGNEW No, there are no mixed messages. The calls he's made have been in support and love for the players. ...
JAMES DICKEY The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feel...
ADAM LEVINE He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth...
NALINI SINGH To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasur...
JACOB BRONOWSKI If that's how he feels, that's how he feels. I have no problem with that. No problem at all.
DARIUS MILES I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH It's not about him; it's about the team, ... I told him, 'If you're going to be unhappy and pouting,...
TONY LA RUSSA George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.
URSULA K. LE GUIN When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kind...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB If you ask me, there's no doubt about it, I'll be out there, ... Again, it's just being able to see ...
DONOVAN MCNABB To have some fun and learn a little bit about track and running and find some success so everybody f...
DICK SIEVERT The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.
PHIL KNIGHT The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how th...
DEE HOCK The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.'...
GIDEON DEFOE We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
LANA WACHOWSKI Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morali...
ABHIJIT NASKAR We'll see how he feels.
BEN HOWLAND But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON It's one-stop shopping to find out what they need to determine if they want to support us.
ROBERTA GOLIBER My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a...
ISSEY MIYAKE It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going...
CAROL ALLEN If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportuni...
ESPERANZA SPALDING Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
SCOTT WESTERFELD I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I kn...
AMY GRANT Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will m...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said ab...
FELIX FRANKFURTER The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said ab...
FELIX FRANKFURTER To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking ple...
JACOB BRONOWSKI To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civi...
GEORGE ORWELL After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in a...
J.G. BALLARD I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are the...
G-EAZY I know how he feels, missus.
KEN DODD Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, a...
PENN JILLETTE ... Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out.
SARAH DESSEN The airport development plan is going to determine the actual scope of the project and the cost, ......
BURTON Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C. I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It...
GUY RITCHIE We wouldn't have gotten that if it weren't for Sandy, no question about it. Everyone knows how he fe...
KEVIN TOWERS Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and c...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS

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Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
ROBERT HEINLEIN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as th...
ROBERT HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Specialization is for insects.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
ROBERT HEINLEIN If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equippe...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.
ROBERT HEINLEIN If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'l...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be e...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
ROBERT HEINLEIN No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
ROBERT HEINLEIN In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
ROBERT HEINLEIN It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone...
ROBERT HEINLEIN History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c...
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ROBERT HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT HEINLEIN There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a stat...
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ROBERT HEINLEIN Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God.
ROBERT HEINLEIN A motion to adjourn is always in order.
ROBERT HEINLEIN People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug wh...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afte...
ROBERT HEINLEIN One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
ROBERT HEINLEIN ...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you th...
ROBERT HEINLEIN A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT HEINLEIN How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN When one teaches, two learn.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
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ROBERT HEINLEIN A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig...
ROBERT HEINLEIN To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matt...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortu...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence nev...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never try to outstubborn a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I grok in fullness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discove...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no safety this side of the grave
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the pretties...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Belief gets in the way of learning.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are f...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conj...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on a government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you m...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were rem...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sense is never common.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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