An armed society is a polite society.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNo statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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 human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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