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Them Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
- 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,…
- I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break…
- Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
- 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…
- I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me.…
- I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I…
- Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and…
- 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.
- Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we…
- Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must…
- Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,…
- Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
- Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense†told them…
- The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.…
- Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
- I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will…
- Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.
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