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One Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- 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 death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.
- I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run…
- Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
- Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt.…
- Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
- A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not…
- 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…
- Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way…
- By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own…
- If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.…
- It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in…
- The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably…
- But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and…
- 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…
- But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle