Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
– Robert A Heinlein
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- Oh, you have to charge ’em, Jubal. The marks won’t pay attention if it’s free. – Robert A Heinlein
- Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers! – Avijeet Das
- I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one’s income is ever quite sufficient, you know). – Anthony Hope
- In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality. – Robert A Heinlein
- A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation – Tahir Shah
- Neither can you explain yourself to me. Nor can I explain myself to you. You have your sadness and I have mine. – Avijeet Das
- The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable. – Karl Rahner
- Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice? – Robert Galbraith
- Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.] – Robert A Heinlein
- I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation. – Robert A Heinlein
- Secrecy begets tyranny. – Robert A Heinlein
- Freedom is a hard habit to break. – Robert A Heinlein
- You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. – Robert A Heinlein
- To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster. – Robert A Heinlein
- ????erflies are self propelled flowers. – Robert A Heinlein
- A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field. – Robert A Heinlein
- Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times – Robert A Heinlein
- Library science was the foundation of all sciences. – Robert A Heinlein
- I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? – Robert A Heinlein
- I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it’s the only thing to make it stop hurting. – Robert A Heinlein
- Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. – Robert A Heinlein
- A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. – Robert A Heinlein
- The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger. – Robert A Heinlein
- I’m always suspicious of disinterested interest. – Robert A Heinlein
- English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. – Robert A Heinlein
- -¦the greatest danger to man in space was man himself. – Robert A Heinlein
- Thinking doesn’t pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you. – Robert A Heinlein
- Support for the arts — merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! – Robert A Heinlein
- The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you. – Robert A Heinlein
- I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don’t. – Robert A Heinlein
- But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. – Robert A Heinlein
- The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger. – Robert A Heinlein
- How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate? – Robert A Heinlein
- Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. – Robert A Heinlein
- It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws. – Robert A Heinlein
- Does history record any case in which the majority was right? – Robert A Heinlein
- -¦majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows. – Robert A Heinlein
- Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study? – Robert A Heinlein
- The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens. – Robert A Heinlein
- 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. – Robert A Heinlein