The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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 underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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