American - Writer | July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988
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
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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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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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