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61 " Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land
62 " Library science was the foundation of all sciences. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Have Space Suit—Will Travel
63 " One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me? "
― Robert A. Heinlein
64 " If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains. "
65 " The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Time Enough for Love
66 " A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. "
67 " I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? "
― Robert A. Heinlein , For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs
68 " It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has. "
69 " Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly. "
70 " I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting. "
71 " A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld. "
72 " Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
73 " He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange. "
74 " Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law. "
75 " Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight. "
76 " I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday
77 " All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. "
78 " Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
79 " Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. "
80 " I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, you're sure to be pushed around by big, hairy, smelly men with delusions about male superiority. "