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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond


Robert A. Schumann

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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at on...
ROBERT A. COOK Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to conf...
ROBERT A. DAHL The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never insult anyone by accident.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acqu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in...
ROBERT A. WARD An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.
ROBERT A. COOK It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the m...
ROBERT A. SCHULLER Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added ...
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN