Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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