Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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