The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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 supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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