A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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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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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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