To 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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINJealousy 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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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