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Quotes by Robert Heinlein

US science fiction author (1907 - 1988)

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That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

CP A motion to adjourn is always in order.

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

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Specialization is for insects.

I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... 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.

The Office does not sanctify the holder of it.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Violence has settled more issues in history than any other factor; and 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.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.

Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

CP Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.