You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINDon’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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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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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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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