Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBeing right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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 universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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