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Friday QUOTES

Friday QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

3 " Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

4 " It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

5 " The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

6 " A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong---and you are strong. The great trouble with religion---any religion---is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask in at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason---but one cannot have both, "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

7 " One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

8 " It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

9 " Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

10 " Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

11 " People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

12 " Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

13 " I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

14 " [A person], having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

15 " Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

16 " all public employees have larceny in their hearts or they wouldn’t be feeding at the public trough "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

17 " How many people have died because they would not abandon their baggage? "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

18 " A credit card is a leash around your neck. In the world of credit cards a person has no privacy…or at best protects her privacy only with great effort and much chicanery. Besides that, do you ever know what the computer network is doing when you poke your card into a slot? I don’t. I feel much safer with cash. I’ve never heard of anyone who had much luck arguing with a computer. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

19 " I would be—and will be—much disappointed in you if you ever simply injure a policeman. A wounded policeman is more dangerous than a wounded lion. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday

20 " Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Friday