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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Long Machinery never Suposoe Worry
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Both Count Ever Freedom Once Peace
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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Alone Free Matter Morally Obnoxious Responsible Rule Surround Tolerate
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Civilized Cure Even No Render Tame Way Writer
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Collector Drink Make Shoot Strong Vary
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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Acquire Cred Law Legislate Political Power Religion
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Excercise Love Merely Neathy Sex
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Children Easy Handicap Live Make
I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Article Cloth How Indecent Person Yes
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
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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Belief Discuss Group Indulgence Juicy Piece Room
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Agree Learn Ma Me never
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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Beautiful Cultivate Do Flower Heavenly Humanity Seed
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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Assume Condition Disease Greater Healthy Immature Jealously Mistake Other
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Alive Anyone Get Hard Irony Life Supreme
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
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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Around Blunder Dull Fantasy Matter Strange Wonderful
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Contact Government Sense Suspect Universum Didi Make
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Anyone Cat Consider Dealt Protocol Unimportant
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Best Elsewhere Made Possible Space Thing Travel
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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Become Correct Ever Fun More Offer Optimist Perrimist

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