Robert A. Heinlein quotes - page 3

Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell. (Robert A. Heinlein)
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry. View quote
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A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse. View quote
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. View quote
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I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool. View quote
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At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that "news” is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different-in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness. View quote
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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands...with tools...with horse sense and science and engineering. View quote
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An invention is something that was "impossible” up to then-that's why governments grant patents. View quote
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Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me-death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way. View quote
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. View quote
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. (Robert A. Heinlein)
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate. View quote
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Television leaves no external scars. View quote
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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 language. View quote
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. View quote
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A generation which ignores history has no past -and no future. View quote
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Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. View quote
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? View quote
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Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin. View quote
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Life is short, but the years are long. View quote
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When I don't understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. (Robert A. Heinlein)
All men are created unequal. View quote
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It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. View quote
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. View quote
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Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. View quote
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