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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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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