I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINEverything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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An armed society is a polite society.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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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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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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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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