Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINDon’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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 am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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