A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever insult anyone by accident.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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 difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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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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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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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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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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