Robert A. Heinlein quotes - page 10

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. View quote
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Sense is never common. View quote
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Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. View quote
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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling. View quote
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Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are. View quote
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ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite. View quote
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Budget the luxuries first. View quote
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Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind. View quote
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An armed society is a polite society. View quote
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One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Everybody lies about sex. View quote
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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. View quote
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Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? View quote
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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 him! View quote
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Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part... and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live. View quote
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it's done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. View quote
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. View quote
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Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. View quote
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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. View quote
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Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires. View quote
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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching. View quote
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The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger. View quote
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Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them. View quote
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