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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #2
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #3
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “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 - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #4
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #5
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #6
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #7
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

  • #8
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

  • #9
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    robert heinlein

  • #10
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #11
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #12
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #13
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #14
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

  • #15
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #16
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #17
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #18
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #19
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star

  • #20
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #21
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #22
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I came, I saw, she conquered."
    The original Latin seems to have been garbled.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #23
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #24
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Heinlein's Rules for Writers

    Rule One: You Must Write
    Rule Two: Finish What Your Start
    Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order
    Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market
    Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #25
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #26
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #28
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #29
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #30
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love



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