Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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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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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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 don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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