A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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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 human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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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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