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Quotes by Robert Heinlein

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: Time Enough for Love
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"Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself."

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: Time Enough for Love p. 371
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get use to the idea.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
 
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The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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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.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
 
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Never scare a little man, he may have to kill you.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: Time enought for love.
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Moderation in all things. Including moderation.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: Sayings of Lazarus Long
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Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long," Time Enough for Love
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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long," Time Enough for Love
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