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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 74d4379 | The universe will let us know--later--whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it. In" | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c4a86a4 | I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| cd8b56c | They want to use him, make him geek. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 40f5034 | Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6df594c | I don't know," he had answered grimly, "except that the time-tested method of instilling social virtue and respect for law in the minds of the young did not appeal to a pre-scientific pseudo-professional class who called themselves 'social workers' or sometimes 'child psychologists." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bdcda6b | Once in a great while lips meet and two spirits merge for a time and the universe is right and complete and the planets wheel in their proper places. Once in a while the lonely, broken spirit of man is healed and made whole. For a while his quest is over and his questions are answered. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5a3dd1b | The only constant thing in these shifting, fairy-chess worlds is human love. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| dec3adf | Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded--here and there, now and then--are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 7490ee0 | It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." --L. Sprague de Camp" | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 25a8679 | The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but"." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d34feed | Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a72e97e | I've been broke even oftener than I've been wealthy. Of the two, being broke is more interesting, as a man who doesn't know where his next meal is coming from is never bored. He may be angry or several other things--but not bored. His predicament sharpens his thoughts, spurs him into action, adds zest to his life, whether he knows it or not. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ea23e12 | All right, all right, have it your own way! I can't prove I'm right--so I must be wrong. Men! | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5d975cc | Harshaw was working as hard as he ever worked. Most of his mind was occupied with watching pretty girls do pretty things with sun and water; | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1646910 | All revelations are personal, that's why all revelations are suspect. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f991c11 | Remind me," Jubal said to her, "to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. The title is 'Gossip Unlimited'--no, make that 'Gossip Gone Wild." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 34554a6 | The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. "Nevertheless," | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 615de72 | If I choose to dine with publicans and sinners, that is my business. But I do not choose to break bread with Pharisees. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4348c1a | It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren't competent to have an opinion about it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 3191525 | J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue--indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge and duty and embraces it more than the self-love he was born with. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4f9131d | You're stranded on Mars and you can only take one book with you. What is it? A. It's always hard to pick one "favorite book." Growing up, I loved early Robert Heinlein books most of all. So if I had to pick one, I'd go with Tunnel in the Sky. I do love a good survival story." | Andy Weir | ||
| e7bb418 | He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word--such as "grok" which forever meant exactly the same thin.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f3cbf64 | A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. - Robert A. Heinlein Brenna | B.R. Kingsolver | ||
| 176dbdd | I always get the shakes before a drop. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bd43eec | Well, I suppose it did. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2e8bbd5 | Nope. Gadflies such as yourself are utterly necessary. Nor am I opposed to 'turning the rascals out'--it's usually the soundest rule of politics. But it's well to take a look at what new rascals you are going to get before you jump at any chance to turn your present rascals out. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 221d2b2 | But I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. 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. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 7881330 | God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good--and is no sillier than any other theology. | pandeism theology | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| e0d73e6 | It's not that easy. You can make omelet from eggs, but not eggs from omelet. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 83c1961 | Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that's what he promised 'em - his virgin daughters, young and tender and scared - urged this street gang to rape them as much as they wished in any way that they liked...if only they would leave him in peace!" Jubal snorted in disgust. "And the Bible cites this sort of scum as being a righteous man." | stranger-in-a-strange-land | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 0bd83a7 | Anywhere is home to the man with a fat bank account--the cops leave him alone. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 60a9358 | I am not a pacifist. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay--and claims a halo for his dishonesty. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4ae6f85 | That's what I was trying to find out when we were rushed off on this damned safari. They have unusual intestinal flora and it may have something to do with that. But I think it has to do with the fact that they never stop growing. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 32246e5 | I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation. | curiosity integration motivation openness teaching | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 2986488 | Engineering is the art of the practical and depends more on the total state of the art than it does on the individual engineer. When railroading time comes you can railroad--but not before. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b98c798 | The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6ff750a | The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable--from table tapping to the superiority of their own children--has never been plumbed. Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it--especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 58caa0a | Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody; | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5cfc881 | Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money, to the utter exclusion of all other interests. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ebf9508 | Me, I had never been sure - only thing I was sure of was that Dr. Chan would not himself sit on a target. But he might not warn his old mother. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0d1e196 | Indian government seemed as furious over fish as fishermen - but principle of sacredness of all life did not apply to us; they wanted our heads. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0460d24 | Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8e54397 | I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b86d63c | But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday--at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself--or perhaps to a man from Mars. | Robert A. Heinlein |