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Robert A. Heinlein
American
Writer
Born:
Jul 7
,
1907
Died:
May 8
,
1988
About
Good
Life
Love
Science
You
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
Women
Cats
Pet
Relax
Will
Men
Please
Idea
Dogs
Get
Should
Used
Relatable
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
People
Conservative
Political
Liberal
Those
Criteria
Divides
Never
Democrat
Controlled
Politically
Human
Want
Race
Forth
Communist
Who
Human Race
Fascist
Populist
Basic
Desire
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
Good
Manners
Society
Back
Back Up
Armed
Polite
His
Up
May
Acts
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
Government
You
Oppression
Result
Matter
Tyranny
Church
Say
Must
See
Know
Forbidden
Read
How
Motives
Subjects
End
End Result
Any
May
Holy
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
Love
Jealousy
Love Is
Mind
Mistakes
Healthy
Own
Assumes
Other
Immature
Another
Greater
Condition
Person
Disease
Essential
Often
Which
Your
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
Freedom
Me
Matter
Free
Too
Everything
Rules
Responsible
Find
Morally
Obnoxious
Know
Because
Am
Surround
Break
Them
Tolerable
Tolerate
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
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
Law
Political
Political Power
Will
Power
Almost
Cult
Truism
Any
Legislate
Creed
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
Good
Happy
Others
Generous
Over
Most
Joys
Surest
Being
Being Happy
Fortune
Good Fortune
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
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
Events
Become
Pessimist
Correct
Neither
More
Optimist
Than
Stop
Fun
Ever
March
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
Time
Best
Travel
Space
Made
Enough
Elsewhere
Collapse
Possible
About
Crowded
ID
Go
Gets
Space Travel
Place
Social
Far
Far Away
Require
Away
Thing
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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