When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its 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 motives.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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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.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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