Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind… — 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
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures.… — 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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