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" Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. "

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" Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. "

" I never learned from a man who agreed with me. "

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" They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. "

" 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. "

" I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. "

" A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. "

" Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. "

" One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. "

" The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "

" Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. "

" Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. "

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

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

" 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. "

" An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. "

" 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. "

" It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. "

" It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. "

" For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. "

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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. "

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

" One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. "

" Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. "

" A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. "

" Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. "

" I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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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" Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. "

" Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. "

" 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. "