When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINMay you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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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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