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. HEINLEINYou can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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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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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 human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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