You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNo statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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