Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
ROBERT A. HEINLEINYou can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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