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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINDon’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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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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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.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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