Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINJealousy 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.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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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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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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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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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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