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141 " History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Time Enough for Love
142 " All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land
143 " Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it. "
― Robert A. Heinlein
144 " Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. "
145 " Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study? "
146 " ...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not even know that he's doing it. As writers' wives and husbands often learn to their horror......there is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. In a household with more than one person, of which one is a writer, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private, and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Because, if you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. Or he may not hear you at all... and, if you shake him at this stage, he bites... "
147 " The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort. "
148 " Never try to outstubborn a cat. "
149 " The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday
150 " Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together. "
151 " But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Starship Troopers
152 " Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must WriteRule Two: Finish What Your StartRule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial OrderRule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the MarketRule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold "
153 " His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. "
154 " For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structure depending solely on the dreams and nightmares of non-logical dreamers. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
155 " You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , The Green Hills of Earth
156 " Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. "
157 " There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Between Planets
158 " He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once. "
159 " - I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Citizen of the Galaxy
160 " A hero must hero. "