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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
-- Justice Robert Jackson
To err is human, to purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne
"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
-- Robert Frost
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.
-- Robert Park
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
-- Robert Benchley
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
-- Robert Heinlein
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-- Robert Frost
"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
-- Robert Strauss (on conducting)
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
-- Robert Frost
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
-- Robert Frost
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
-- Robert Pirsig
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."
-- Robert Benchley
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves
If there is no such thing as justice then the best we can hope for is revenge
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
-- Robert Fulghum
'Love' is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein (Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land)
"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history."
-- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Robertson Davies
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
-- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)