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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assumes #condition #disease #essential #greater

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#difference #fuzzy #merely #other #reasoning

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

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#correct #events #ever #fun #march

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#easy #handicap #lives #making #their

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#lonelier #lonely #make #other #people

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#does #long #machinery #never #supposed

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home. ↗