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. 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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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