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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#communist #conservative #controlled #criteria #democrat

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#human #never #never underestimate #stupidity #underestimate

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#may #pass #temptation #way #yield

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#happen #later #make #our #supposed

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#engineering #magic #man #supernatural #word

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#because #believed #made #should #statement

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#civilized #cured #endure #even #food

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#cat #considers #dealt #never #protocol

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#always #because #darling #everybody #get

Imagination comes of not having things. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#having #imagination #things