For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINIt’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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