Robert A. Heinlein

(694 votes)   Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(318 votes)   Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.

Robert Anson Heinlein

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(282 votes)   No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(275 votes)   The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people: I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arroganceself-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come judgment day.

Robert Heinlein

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(260 votes)   The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people: I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arroganceself-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch comejudgment day.

Robert Heinlein

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(254 votes)   Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(244 votes)   The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

Robert Heinlein

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(226 votes)   A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(222 votes)   Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(213 votes)   A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone 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.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(212 votes)   Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago

Robert A. Heinlein

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(209 votes)   When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(206 votes)   To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(202 votes)   Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(186 votes)   Belief gets in the way of learning.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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