Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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 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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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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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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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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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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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 difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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