Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINYield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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 underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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 difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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