A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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