It is music's lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart


Robert A. Schumann

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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
ROBERT A. DAHL
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to compla...
ROBERT A. COOK
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democ...
ROBERT A. DAHL
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at on...
ROBERT A. COOK
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to conf...
ROBERT A. DAHL
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never insult anyone by accident.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acqu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in...
ROBERT A. WARD
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.
ROBERT A. COOK
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the m...
ROBERT A. SCHULLER
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added ...
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN