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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Basic Communist Conservative Criteria Democrat Fascist Forth Liberal Political Royalist Tag
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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Black Dark Help Midnight never Search Theology
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Assume Condition Disease Greater Healthy Immature Jealously Mistake Other
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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Church End Forbidden Government Holy Matter Motive Oppression Result Subject Tyranny Undertake
One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Another Engineering Magic Man Null One Supernatural World
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Cat Dog Idea Men Please Relax Should Used Women
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Collapse Crowd Elsewhere Get Place Require Social Time
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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Alone Free Matter Morally Obnoxious Responsible Rule Surround Tolerate
Never insult anyone by accident.
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Accident Anyone Insult never One Liner
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Become Correct Ever Fun More Offer Optimist Perrimist
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. HEINLEIN

Around Blunder Dull Fantasy Matter Strange Wonderful
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Done Everything Impossible Theoretically Until

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