Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI never learned from a man who agreed with me.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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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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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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