Time Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

46 Time quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert warns not to let the past become a tight jacket that stops you. He talks about being busy with duties and missing the chance to do what you truly want. He also suggests that automating simple tasks frees up time for love and simple joys.

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“Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times”

Robert A. Heinlein

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Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.

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“Good luck, boys! This time we take ’em!”

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Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

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Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

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When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

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Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

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“But, whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!”

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

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To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,…

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But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been…

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My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

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Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens…

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There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military…

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“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as…

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History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

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There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune…

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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human…

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History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not…

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A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but…

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“Once in a great while lips meet and two spirits merge for a time and the universe is right and complete and…

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At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate.…

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The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many…

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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or…

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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it…

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Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We…

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I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures.…

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Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind…

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Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been…

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“Let's skip [Mobile Infantry] tradition for a moment. Can you think of anything sillier than being fired out of a spaceship with…

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“Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to…

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“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all…

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“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the…

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A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

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“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots . . . —Thomas Jefferson, 1787”

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“Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.”

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“I've been afraid so many times that I am no longer scared to be afraid again. What can't be cured must be…

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The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

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If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it…

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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The…

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Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

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If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will…

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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,…

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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

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“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

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“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to…

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“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

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Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein”

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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

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