A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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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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