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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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