No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBy cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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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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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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