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Things Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
- 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…
- The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
- 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…
- But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad…
- Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other…
- There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
- 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.
- Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
- Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life…
- Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good†government, it simply insures that it will work.…
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