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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.


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This article examines the criminal conviction of Robert Halse...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
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 The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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