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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes about Life

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Motivational, Atheist
Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein
Love, Life, Positive
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein
Funny, Life, Motivational
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Education, Children

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein
Inspirational, Life, War
Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.124, Hachette UK

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Success, Inspire

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Minutes
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Society, Trouble Maker
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.23, Penguin

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Cutting, Men
Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

Robert A. Heinlein
Love, Life, Littles
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.175, Penguin

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Hurt, Laughing
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.295, Penguin

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Animal, Men
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Robert A. Heinlein
Life, Evil, Cold
Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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