When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTo 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.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to 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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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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