One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe 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.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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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 human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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 man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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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 universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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