You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source)… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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