More from Robert A. Heinlein

  1. Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or…
  2. What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars…
  3. 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.
  4. When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space t…
  5. Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then -…
  6. When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out - that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it wo…
  7. There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk.
  8. Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are an…

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