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Time Enough for Love (1973)
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Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
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Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
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A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
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Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.
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Most "scientists" are bottle washers and button sorters.
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In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
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Permit me to say, speaking from experience, all theories are empty.
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Oh, I have strong opinions, but a thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and finding out.
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In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
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God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.
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The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
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Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.
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Crazy — a nonscientific term meaning that the person to whom one applies that label has a world picture differing from the accepted one.
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It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.
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When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out, that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
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Son, that phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".
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He shut up, realizing that grim old Mother Nature, red of tooth and claw, invariably punished damn fools who tried to ignore Her or repeal Her ordinances.
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Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
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I don't "believe" in anything. I know certain things — little things, not the Nine Billion Names of God — from experience. But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.
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Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.
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"Mutation" is never an explanation; it is simply a name for an observed fact.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Born:
July 7, 1907
Died:
May 8, 1988
(aged 80)
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