Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBy 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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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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