No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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 handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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 universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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