Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINLove is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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