By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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