The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINAnyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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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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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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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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