Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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• The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
• Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you…
• Love your country, but never trust its government.
• Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
• A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
• Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
• A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
• Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.
• Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.
• Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
• Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.
• A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good…
• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out…
• There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
• No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
• There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that…
• Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
• By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
• The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
• God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three…

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