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Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.


Robert A. Cook

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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a de...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a c...
ROBERT A. JOHNSON The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has even...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not ins...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most am...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to se...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. The...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundam...
ROBERT A. NISBET In a highly popular statement, we are told that the family has progressed from institution to compan...
ROBERT A. NISBET