The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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