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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

American Writer

Born: Jul 7, 1907

Died: May 8, 1988

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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. Robert A. Heinlein

Impossible Everything Until Done Theoretically

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

Jealousy Insecurity Symptom Invariably Neurotic Self-Confident Person Anything Incapable Competent

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. Robert A. Heinlein

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. Robert A. Heinlein

Love You Long Wish Live May

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

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

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

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. Robert A. Heinlein

Writing Something Private Hands Afterwards Ashamed Your Wash Necessarily

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein

Funny Way Temptation Pass Yield May Again Your

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

Freedom You Peace Once Having Both Count Ever

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. Robert A. Heinlein

You Strong Collectors Drink Miss Make Shoot Tax Wary

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. Robert A. Heinlein

Man Word Engineering Magic Supernatural Another

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. Robert A. Heinlein

Considers Cat Never Protocol Dealt Anyone Unimportant Who

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. Robert A. Heinlein

Made Statement Because Authority Should Believed

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

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. Robert A. Heinlein

Government Sense Universe Never Make Built Contract Did Suspect

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

Troublemakers Society Goes Gets Rid Downhill

Never insult anyone by accident. Robert A. Heinlein

Accident Never Insult Anyone

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. Robert A. Heinlein

Man Laugh Another Theology Belly

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. Robert A. Heinlein

Love Love Is Sex Healthy Merely Exercise Without

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 Science Isolation Patient Way Solution Only Civilized Writers He Poked Rendered Him Known Stick Tamed Private Provide Cured Where Endure Stages Room Even Acute

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