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Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover. View quote
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Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices. View quote
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Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth. View quote
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But I do not willingly involve us in nationalistic wars; the side of the angels is seldom self-evident. View quote
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A baby is lots more fun than differential equations. View quote
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Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs. View quote
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I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same. View quote
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I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people-and parasites. View quote
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Religious = absolute belief without proof. View quote
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You're not a stranger; you're an old friend we haven't known very long. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts. View quote
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The tragedy about Romeo and Juliet is not that they died so young but that the boy-meets-girl reflex should be so overpowering as to defeat all common sense. View quote
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It's lots better to be miserable than to be bored. View quote
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I really am a good listener because you never can tell when you will pick up something useful-and all in the world any woman has to do to be considered "charming” by men is to listen while they talk. View quote
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Don't kid yourself, knowing too much is a capital offense. In politics it always has been. View quote
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Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. View quote
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My mistake. My inexcusable mistake, as a con man never stops being a con man; he can't. But I suffered from a will to believe, a defect of character that I thought I had rooted out. I was mistaken. View quote
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I sometimes think that my own weakness lies in not realizing the full depths of the weakness and stupidity of men. As a reasonable creature myself I seem to have an unfortunate tendency to expect others unlike myself to be reasonable. View quote
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Why stay in Chicago; what did the town have to justify its existence? One decent boulevard, one decent suburb to the north, priced for the rich, two universities and a lake. As for the rest, endless miles of depressing, dirty streets. The town was one big stockyard. View quote
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It was fairly evident that at least 90 per cent of all magic, probably more, was balderdash and sheer mystification. (Robert A. Heinlein)
It may possibly be urged the shape of a culture-its mores, evaluations, family organizations, eating habits, living patterns, pedagogical methods, institutions, forms of government, and so forth-arise from the economic necessities of its technology. View quote
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We are all free-to walk our appointed paths. Just as a stone is free to fall when you toss it into the air. No one is free in the abstract meaning you give the word. View quote
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The concept of change baffled them. View quote
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We have everything for a still; I stocked the items to build one if a war came along-not just for us but because liquor is money in any primitive society. View quote
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