| 48 Famous Quotes by Robert Heinlein
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“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Happiness Quotes |
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“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...”
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“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...”
Jealousy Quotes |
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“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”
Reciprocity Quotes |
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“Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”
Teaching Quotes |
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“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.”
Future Quotes |
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“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.”
Fantasy Quotes |
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“Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”
Learning Quotes |
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“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.”
World Quotes |
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“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
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“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".”
Finance and economics Quotes |
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“The greatest productive force is human selfishness.”
Finance and economics Quotes |
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“Beauty is not diminished by being shared.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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“...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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“If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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“Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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“To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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“The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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Robert Heinlein Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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