A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINYield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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