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Out Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- 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…
- 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…
- A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
- Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
- Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting…
- If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in…
- 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…
- I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in…
- 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…
- Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept…
- In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
- 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…
- In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find…
- The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
- The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left…
- Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
- Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the…
- English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English…
- 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…
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