With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.
("Stranger in a Strange Land")
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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.Robert A. Heinlein
He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
Robert A. Heinlein
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arroganceself-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch comejudgment day.
Robert A. Heinlein
Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.
Robert A. Heinlein
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
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Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
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