1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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    There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into—that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for it.

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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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    It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does...because the sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow, both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

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    One man's ‘magic' is another man's engineering. ‘Supernatural' is a null word.

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    Unarmed hand to hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

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    Progress doesn't come from early risers - progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

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