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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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