Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNo statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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