Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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 a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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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.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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