Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe 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.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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 don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible 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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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 underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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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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