Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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