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Been Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
- My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t…
- I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and…
- Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a…
- The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
- Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story unless that…
- There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
- Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There…
- Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to…
- There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so…
- I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
- Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights…
- From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you…
- I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries…
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