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.
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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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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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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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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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