Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINYield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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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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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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