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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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. HEINLEIN

Church End Forbidden Government Holy Matter Motive Oppression Result Subject Tyranny Undertake
I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Article Cloth How Indecent Person Yes
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Being Right Social Soon Too Unacceptable
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Acute Endure Food Isolation Poke Private Provide Room Science Solution Stick
It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Belief Discuss Group Indulgence Juicy Piece Room
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Alone Do Everything Free Love Morally Responsible
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Collapse Crowd Elsewhere Get Place Require Social Time
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Long Machinery never Suposoe Worry
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Another Condition Essential Happiness Love Own Person Your
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Basic Communist Conservative Criteria Democrat Fascist Forth Liberal Political Royalist Tag
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Difference Fuzzy Merely Other Require Reson Scholarship Science Subject
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate

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