There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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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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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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