For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINMay you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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 insult anyone by accident.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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