Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Life
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
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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.
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I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
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My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
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By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
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