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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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When 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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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