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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheology 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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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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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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 never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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