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One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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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

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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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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

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