Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINWomen and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to 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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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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