The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThere is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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 supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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