#so

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #competent #incapable #insecurity #invariably

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

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

#acts #armed #back #back up #good

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

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

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#clothing #how #i #indecent #person

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#dreams #else #everyone #like #look

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

— Levon Helm

#every #every time #home #i #me

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#aware #check #checking #child #child abuse