A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINWriting is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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