The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBeing right too soon is socially unacceptable.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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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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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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