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Quotations by author » Robert A. Heinlein
American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988
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If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you shake him, he bites.
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
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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.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
CensorshipHeresyPoliticsReligion
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
BeliefGossip
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love
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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
Insults
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.
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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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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Magic
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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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.
FortuneGenerosityJoyLifeRelationships
People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
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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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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things
Progress
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
EfficiencyProgress
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