They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINA competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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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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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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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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