May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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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 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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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