Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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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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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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