Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINManners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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