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Very Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.
- Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending…
- 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…
- Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing…
- A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill…
- 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…
- From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you…
- A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
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