Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINWhen 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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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