They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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