More from Robert A. Heinlein

  1. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
  2. Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him with…
  3. Writing, is not necessarily something to be ashamed of - but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
  4. In this complex world, science, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human ra…
  5. Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are an…
  6. Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equ…
  7. When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out - that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it wo…
  8. I now define 'moral behavior' as 'behavior that tends toward survival.' I won't argue with philosophers or theologians who choose to use th…

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