| 48 Famous Quotes by Robert Heinlein
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“Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.”
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“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
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“Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.”
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“The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.”
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“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
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“Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.”
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“Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.”
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“Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.”
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“It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.”
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“If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.”
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“Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.”
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“In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.”
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“A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.”
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“Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.”
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“One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.”
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“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”
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“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
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“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
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“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.”
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“Specialization is for insects.”
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“If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!”
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“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”
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“The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.”
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