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.
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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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 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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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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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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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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