Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINA society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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