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1. "Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
2. "Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their "common sense" told them was impossible." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
3. "Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
4. "If I don't start having service I'm going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
5. "Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
6. "I always get the shakes before a drop." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
7. "In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
8. "Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
9. "Live and learn, or you don't live long." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
10. "God created men to test the souls of women." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
11. "I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman--which means I can be a real revolving son of a bitch when it suits me." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
12. "You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
13. "Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
14. "I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not" ~ Robert A. Heinlein
15. "Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
16. "Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
17. "Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
18. "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
19. "The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
20. "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
21. "History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of" ~ Robert A. Heinlein
22. "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
23. "Secrecy begets tyranny." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
24. "Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
25. "Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.''It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
26. "Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
27. "I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
28. "As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have..." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
29. "Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
30. "Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
31. "I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a 'juvenile delinquent.' But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
32. "That's a subject as safe as being in favor of Christmas." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
33. "She might say: "This mess will clear up if you take that troublemaker there — What's your name? You, with the goatee — out and shoot him. Do it now."--Glory Road; Heinlein" ~ Robert A. Heinlein
34. "People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
35. "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
36. "Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
37. "But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
38. "Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
39. "Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
40. "It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
41. "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 the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out.Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
42. "Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
43. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms" ~ Robert A. Heinlein
44. "I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
45. "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 do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
46. "He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
47. "I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)" ~ Robert A. Heinlein
48. "Rub her feet!" ~ Robert A. Heinlein
49. "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." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
50. "Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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