Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINA society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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