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. HEINLEINThe universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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 am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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