1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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    You got the impression that he never needed to sleep – just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

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    The lessons of history teach us – if the lessons of history teach us anything – that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

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    It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws.

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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.

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    I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It’s a common failing.

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    Widows are far better than brides. They don’t tell, they won’t yell, they don’t swell, they rarely smell, and they’re grateful as hell.

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    The mind’s ability to rationalize it’s own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

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