Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
firsts permit receipts
Drop dead-but first get permit
luxury firsts budgets
Budget the luxuries first.
firsts waking crime
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
firsts chance obituary
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
lines pay firsts
Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.
luxury ingredients firsts
Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
ideas firsts delusion
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
atheist firsts principles
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
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Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
dull fact fantasy matter strange
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
running should-have safety
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.
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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
majority notebooks robert time
Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.