Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINYield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Jealousy 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.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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