It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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