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Often Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
- Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young,…
- People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.…
- Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
- Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in…
- The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical…
- Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being…
- He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He…
- Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then —…
- Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely…
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