You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBe wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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 worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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