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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.Robert A. Heinlein
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There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?Robert A. Heinlein
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Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.Robert A. Heinlein
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Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.Robert A. Heinlein
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert A. Heinlein
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It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn .. . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.Robert A. Heinlein
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Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.Robert A. Heinlein
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.Robert A. Heinlein
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Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.Robert A. Heinlein
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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own .. . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing .. . is one that they can't or won't entertain.Robert A. Heinlein
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People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.Robert A. Heinlein
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The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert A. Heinlein
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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.Robert A. Heinlein
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But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.Robert A. Heinlein
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The Mother Thing makes our world.Robert A. Heinlein
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More depended on the student than on the school.Robert A. Heinlein
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When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.Robert A. Heinlein
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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]Robert A. Heinlein
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I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.Robert A. Heinlein
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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein