Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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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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