Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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• A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. Brain
• Since when was an emotional argument won by logic? Argument
• People usually believe anything that they are told early and often. Believe
• It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one. Accomplished
• Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Adequately
• Love is what still goes on when you're not horny. Friendship
• The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine… Adoration
• Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you… Athletic
• Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. Friendly
• Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to… Animal
• There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're… Blokes
• If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together. Boy
• It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that,… Content
• Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast,… Age
• From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. America
• Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing,… All
• I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love… Another Person
• On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a… Building
• The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love. Ephemerals
• Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. Capital

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