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. HEINLEINThey didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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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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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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