Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheology 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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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