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Methuselah's Children QUOTES

Methuselah's Children QUOTES

1 " When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

2 " was no such thing as a “dangerous weapon,” there were only dangerous men. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

3 " It’s not that easy. You can make omelet from eggs, but not eggs from omelet. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

4 " That’s what I was trying to find out when we were rushed off on this damned safari. They have unusual intestinal flora and it may have something to do with that. But I think it has to do with the fact that they never stop growing. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

5 " A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

6 " Life is short, but the years are long. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

7 " Correct or not, he felt himself to be a useless pensioner, an impotent object of charity. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

8 " Any custom is man-made and is therefore a finite attempt to describe an infinity of relationships. It follows as the night from day that any custom necessarily has its exceptions. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

9 " Mass psychology is not simply a summation of individual psychologies; that is a prime theorem of social psychodynamics—not just my opinion; no exception has ever been found to this theorem. It is the social mass-action rule, the mob-hysteria law, known and used by military, political, and religious leaders, by advertising men and prophets and propagandists, by rabble rousers and actors and gang leaders, for generations before it was formulated in mathematical symbols. It works. It is working now. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

10 " Whenever the citizens fix their attention on one issue to the exclusion of others, the situation is ripe for scalawags, demagogues, ambitious men on horseback. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

11 " It is contrary to our customs to permit scientific knowledge to be held as a monopoly for the few. When concealing such knowledge strikes at life itself, the action becomes treason to the race. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

12 " Citizens are urged to tolerate cheerfully any minor inconvenience this may cause them; your right of privacy will be respected in every way possible; your right of free movement may be interrupted temporarily, but full economic restitution will be made. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

13 " light-months—and it was now possible to infer by parainterferometric methods that the star (ZD9817, or simply “our” star) had planets of some sort. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children

14 " He even let himself be vaccinated again rather than go back to the I Spy and dig out the piece of paper that showed he had been vaccinated on arrival Earthside a few weeks earlier. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Methuselah's Children