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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne 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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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