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"Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is e...  
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anyt...  
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets ...  
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.  
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may ha...  
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.  
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... an...  
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers,...  
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than a...  
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.  
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.  
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.  
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every...  
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable,...  
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.  
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.  
If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or b...  
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if the...  
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.  
Never insult anyone by accident.  
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.  
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's suppo...  
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.  
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothi...  
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the sole...  
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a nu...  
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.   Religion
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from b...  
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fasc...  
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.  
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" ...  
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science ...  
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.  
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnig...   Religion
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or ev...  
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.  
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and ...  
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is n...  
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say ...  
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in pr...  
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.  
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on havin...