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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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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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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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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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