Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
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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…
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Love your country, but never trust its government.
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Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
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A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
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Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
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A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.
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Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.
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Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
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Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.
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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…
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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…
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There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
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No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
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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…
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Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
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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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