You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI 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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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