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Robert A. Heinlein

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

alone

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

best

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

food

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

freedom

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

freedom

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

good

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

good

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

-Robert A. Heinlein

good

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

-Robert A. Heinlein

good

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

government

The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.

-Robert A. Heinlein

government

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

happiness

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

history

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

jealousy

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

jealousy

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

-Robert A. Heinlein

learning

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

life

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

life

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

love

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

-Robert A. Heinlein

love

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

-Robert A. Heinlein

love

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

-Robert A. Heinlein

men

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

peace

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

-Robert A. Heinlein

pet

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

-Robert A. Heinlein

power

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

power

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

religion

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

science

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

science

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

science

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

-Robert A. Heinlein

society

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

-Robert A. Heinlein

society

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

time

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.

-Robert A. Heinlein

travel

Robert A. Heinlein

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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.

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.

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.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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.

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

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

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

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

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.

The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.

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.

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.

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

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.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

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

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

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.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

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

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

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.

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.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

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