May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINDon’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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