You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTo 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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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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