Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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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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