No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINLove is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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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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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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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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