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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Article Cloth How Indecent Person Yes
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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Alone Do Everything Free Love Morally Responsible
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
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.
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Around Blunder Dull Fantasy Matter Strange Wonderful
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Control Desire Divide Human People Political Race Such
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Downhill Get Goes Rid Society Troublemaker
The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Best Elsewhere Made Possible Space Thing Travel
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian
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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Alone Free Matter Morally Obnoxious Responsible Rule Surround Tolerate
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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Belief Discuss Group Indulgence Juicy Piece Room
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Contact Government Sense Suspect Universum Didi Make
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
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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Church End Forbidden Government Holy Matter Motive Oppression Result Subject Tyranny Undertake
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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Collapse Crowd Elsewhere Get Place Require Social Time
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Afterward Ashamed Necessary Private Something Wash Write
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
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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Acute Endure Food Isolation Poke Private Provide Room Science Solution Stick
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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Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Another Belly Laugh Man One Theology
Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Act Back Good Life Manager May One When
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Civilized Cure Even No Render Tame Way Writer
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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Become Correct Ever Fun More Offer Optimist Perrimist
Never insult anyone by accident.
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Accident Anyone Insult never One Liner
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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Black Dark Help Midnight never Search Theology

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