A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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