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Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

Robert A. Heinlein
Loathe
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.90, Penguin

The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.

Robert A. Heinlein
Sports, Fighting, Intelligent

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

Robert A. Heinlein
Heart, Law, People
Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

Robert A. Heinlein
Summer, Hope, Ambition
Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

Robert A. Heinlein
Funny, Clever, Smart
Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

You don’t pay back, you pay forward.

Robert A. Heinlein
Pay

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

Robert A. Heinlein
Ends

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.

Robert A. Heinlein
Stupidity, Natural, Programming

The marks won't listen if it's free.

Robert A. Heinlein
Mark, Ifs

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Robert A. Heinlein
Gasoline, Enough, Dynamite
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.356, Penguin

Drop dead-but first get permit

Robert A. Heinlein
Firsts, Permit, Receipts
Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Robert A. Heinlein
Random Chance, Chance, Chances Are

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Robert A. Heinlein
Order
Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Tunnel in the Sky”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

Robert A. Heinlein
Astronaut, Traveler, Space Travel
Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.146, Baen Publishing Enterprises

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

Robert A. Heinlein
Father, Cities, Never Settle

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

Robert A. Heinlein
Jobs, Fall, Keys

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

Robert A. Heinlein
Appreciation, Boys, Television

It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.

Robert A. Heinlein
Mean, Too Short, Mass
Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.101, Baen Publishing Enterprises

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

Robert A. Heinlein
Should, Nationalism

Television leaves no external scars.

Robert A. Heinlein
Television, Scar
Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

Robert A. Heinlein
Government, Patents, Impossible
Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Robert A. Heinlein
Age, Might, Accepting
Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.

Robert A. Heinlein
Binary, Ten
Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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

Robert A. Heinlein
Sleep, Dust, Miles
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.39, Penguin

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

Robert A. Heinlein
Boss, Littles, Little Things

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