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"37 Robert A. Heinlein Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 7 July 1907 | Author | Engineer |

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.

Become Correct Events Ever
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

About Away Best Collapse
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh

Another Belly Laugh Man
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Acts Armed Back Good
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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. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Any Anything Black Cat
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Article Clothing How Indecent
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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Children Easy Handicap Lives
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Agreed Learned Man Me
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They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Good Want Wanted Wednesday
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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

Beliefs Discuss Gossip Indulgence
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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.

Beautiful Belong Cultivate Cultivating
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Being Being Happy Fortune Generous
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority

Authority Because Believed Made
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done

Done Everything Impossible Theoretically
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Alive Anyone Gets Hardly Irony
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Anything Competent Incapable Insecurity
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Live Long Love May
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Any Church End EndResult
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Civilization Me Politeness Sine
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Afterwards Ashamed Hands Necessarily
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Basic Communist Conservative Controlled
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Anyone Cat Considers Dealt
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... 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.

Another Assumes Condition Disease
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Never insult anyone by accident.

Accident Anyone Insult Never
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity

Human Never NeverUnderestimate Power
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

About Does Long Machinery
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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.

About Blunder Dull Fantasy
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Again May Pass Temptation
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Both Count Ever Freedom
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Downhill Gets Goes Rid
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Between Difference Fuzzy Merely
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One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Another Engineering Magic Man
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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

About Authority Could Done
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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

Almost Any Creed Cult
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable

Being Right Socially Soon
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea

Cats Dogs Get Idea
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Built Contract Did Government
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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes & Sayings