Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction Author

Wise

“Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.”

Thinking Science Knowledge

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Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction Author

Angry

“Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”

Doe Animal Crazy

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Angry

“Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.”

Lying Fire Skills

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Angry

“A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.”

Brain Legs

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Angry

“It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.”

Two Heaven

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Angry

“Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.”

People Technology Engineering

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Melancholic

“An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.”

Fighting Animal Spirit

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Courageous

“Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.”

Blood Liberty Unalienable Rights

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Angry

“In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.”

Years Mind Women

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Angry

“There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.”

Children Choices Challenges

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Angry

“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.”

Space Race Eggs

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Angry

“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”

Thinking Writing Book

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