A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNo statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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