Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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 underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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 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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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 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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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 supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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