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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBy cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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