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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ec3d418 | Sovereign,' like 'love,' means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between 'sober' and 'sozzled. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 99aecbb | the ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fd4bad2 | Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You" | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 44ea8bc | Fact was, little Carmen was so ornamental that you just never thought about her being useful. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 252da6e | My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards'. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a6d546e | Let me speak first of the matters I observed as a critic. Your world has several pleasures. There is eating." He reached out and pulled off from its bunch a muscat grape, fat and sugar-sweet, and ate it appreciatively. "An odd one, that. And very remarkable. No one ever before thought of making an art of the simple business of obtaining the necessary energy. Your Artist has very real talent. "And there is sleeping. A strange reflexive busin.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 3606ff9 | Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1b7a056 | I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill. | poker skill | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 7d08a0b | to the everlasting glory of the infantry, shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young! | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e8ea644 | You know the classification of cultures into 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a15985b | Man is the animal who laughs, | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8fd36f2 | I say 'art' advisedly, for art is undefined, undefinable, and without limits. I can use the word without fear of misusing it, for it has no exact meaning. There are as many meanings as there are artists. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6909bb6 | If change threatens you, you become conservative in self-defense. If it thrills you, you become liberal in self-liberation. He says the Threateneds are frequently more successful in the short run, because they always fight dirty. But in the long run, they always lose, because Thrilled people learn and thus accomplish more. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bf8141a | this has more aspects than a cat has hair. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d48f224 | adult delinquents--people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bf4862a | 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. If it sometimes pains them to make a choice - if the choice turns out to look like a 'noble sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is in no wise nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness . . . the unpleasant necessity of having to decide between two things both of which you would like to do when you can't .. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2c8a25e | Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0475c4f | I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three. | horse-race humor | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 6411c4f | Any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ecc266a | Good luck, boys! This time we take 'em! | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f16a86e | We used these rifles in field exercises to simulate a lot of deadlier and nastier aimed weapons, too. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e448f95 | If I had had any sense, I'd have quit and taken a working job. The only trouble with that would be that I wouldn't have been working for the Old Man any longer. That made the difference. Not that he was a soft boss. He was quite capable of saying, "Boys, we need to fertilize this oak tree. Just jump in that hole at its base and I'll cover you up." We'd have done it. Any of us would. And the Old Man would bury us alive, too, if he thought th.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bfef497 | What was "grokking"? He had been using the word for a week--and he didn't grok it." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c256735 | Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method. Its worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents--a | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 93fd888 | The depths of winter longing are ice within my heart The shards of broken covenants lie sharp against my soul The wraiths of long-lost ecstasy still keep us two apart The amen winds of bitterness sill keen from turn to pole. The scares are twisted tendons, the stumps of struck-off limbs, The aching pit of hunger and throb of unset bone, My sanded burning eyeballs, as might within them dims, Add nothin to the torment of lying here alone... T.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 39c4565 | There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. Man was his own grimmest joke on himself. The very bedrock of humor was-- "Man is the animal who laughs," Jubal answered." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c2fde0e | First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job." "If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?" | word | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 4669ce6 | What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I've studied--from most human beings, really--is that the people who face the wall and the people who face away from it have never fought a war over it. They're never going to agree...but they feel no need to. Buddha himself is supposed to have said, "People with opinions just go around bothering each other." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 165430e | I told you when you hired him that--" "When I hired him?" "Don't interrupt. --that any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly." -- | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fc4253c | I'm not suggesting anything. People get hurt every day. This matter must be cleared up, Joseph, for everybody. The greatest good of the greatest number, as you are so fond of quoting. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 955fe0d | One damn sure thing!--he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fe3cf44 | But as a matter of strict fact, did Agnes have any "maternal" in her? When she set her mouth that way, it was hard to see it. Oh shucks, all women had maternal instincts; science had proved that. Well, hadn't they?" | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 72ddb14 | Her calculations were sometimes a little fuzzy, for the same reason that her checkbook sometimes did not balance; Becky Vesey (as she had been known as a child) had never really mastered the multiplication tables and she was inclined to confuse sevens with nines. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6f4745d | Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4e1925e | They were all three amazingly beautiful; they were also amazingly good secretaries. In Harshaw's opinion the principle of least action required that utility and beauty be combined. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d1f7dbf | If you turn out to be useful as well as ornamental, you can stay forever. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2be580a | In the course of nearly a century of gusty living he had been broke many times, had several times been wealthier than he now was; he regarded both conditions as he did shifts in the weather, and never counted his change. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fa2a7bb | He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; he considered most people fit candidates for protective restraint and wet packs. He simply wished heartily that they would leave him alone!--all but the few he chose for playmates. He was firmly convinced that, left to himself, he would have long since achieved nirvana . . . dived into his own belly button and disappeared from view, like those Hindu jokers. Why couldn't they leave a ma.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0621190 | Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in "measurements" when he did not know what he was measuring." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 751095b | It doesn't make sense. Or, rather, it makes just one kind of sense. Hanky-panky. Ben is as used to hanky-panky as a bride is to kisses. He didn't get to be one of the best winchells in the business through playing his cards face up. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ac70091 | Anne is so thoroughly indoctrinated that it doesn't even occur to her to infer that the other side is probably white, too. All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't force her to commit herself as to the far side . . . unless she herself went around to the other side and looked--and even then she wouldn't assume that it stayed whatever color it might be after she left . . . because they might repaint it as soon as she turned her .. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f5f476f | You're not privileged to call me 'Boss'; you're not tax deductible. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2e27a4c | I wish we had somebody here who never would be missed. Regrettably we are all friends. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6a8632c | I think you were telling the truth, Jill. But a dream is a true experience of a sort and so is a hypnotic delusion. | Robert A. Heinlein |