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- Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Stranger in a Strange Land
- There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love
- 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.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
- History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love (1972)
- The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- 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.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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