It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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