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  • #1
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #2
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
    Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: rah

  • #3
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

  • #6
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse,”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #10
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?”
    Robert A Heinlein

  • #11
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A motion to adjourn is always in order.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #12
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, ‘I don’t know’, then it becomes possible to get at the truth.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

  • #13
    Larry Niven
    “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”
    Larry Niven

  • #14
    Larry Niven
    “The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”
    Larry Niven, Ringworld

  • #15
    Larry Niven
    “1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.
    1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.”
    Larry Niven, N-Space

  • #16
    Larry Niven
    “Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.”
    Larry Niven, The Mote in God's Eye

  • #17
    Ben Aaronovitch
    “I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting".
    "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?”
    Ben Aaronovitch

  • #18
    Ben Aaronovitch
    “The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
    Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

  • #19
    Ben Aaronovitch
    “Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the 'London once-over' - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile wrestling.”
    Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London

  • #20
    Ben Aaronovitch
    “It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.”
    Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

  • #21
    Ben Aaronovitch
    “That which does not kill us,” I said, “has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.”
    Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes

  • #22
    Ben Aaronovitch
    “But . . .” Dominic floundered around for a bit before pointing at me accusingly. “You said that there’s weird shit, but it normally turns out to have a rational explanation.”
    “It does,” said Beverley. “The explanation is a wizard did it.”
    Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer

  • #23
    Ben Aaronovitch
    “There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.”
    Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer

  • #24
    Jim  Butcher
    “If I need you I'll give you a signal.'
    'What signal?'
    'I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl”
    Jim Butcher

  • #25
    Jim  Butcher
    “Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.”
    Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

  • #26
    Jim  Butcher
    “In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”
    Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

  • #27
    Jim  Butcher
    “Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.”
    Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

  • #28
    Jim  Butcher
    “I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.”
    Jim Butcher, Skin Game

  • #29
    Kevin Hearne
    “Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.”
    Kevin Hearne, Hounded

  • #30
    Kevin Hearne
    “That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.”
    Kevin Hearne, Hammered



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