One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI 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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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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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