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" No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. "

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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" You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. "

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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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" Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. "

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" Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. "

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" Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. "

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" May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. "

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" Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... 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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" 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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" Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. "

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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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" There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. 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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