Never insult anyone by accident.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThey didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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