The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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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 supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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