Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheologians can persuade themselves of anything.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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