Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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’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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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