You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINYou can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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 best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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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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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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