It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINYield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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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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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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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