All Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
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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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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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