Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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 don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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.
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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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