Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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