Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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 human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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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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