For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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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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