You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINDon’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.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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 man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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