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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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