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Robert A Heinlein Inspirational Quotes (391)

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Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.
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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.
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When you're rich, you don't have friends you just have endless acquaintances.
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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
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English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
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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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Decency is not news it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.
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Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
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I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
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Specialisation is for insects!
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The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for art that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
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Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
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- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
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Television leaves no external scars.
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A zest for living must include a willingness to die.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
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What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
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I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
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Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.
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