All Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. 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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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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. Heinlein
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
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Religion
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