An armed society is a polite society.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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