A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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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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