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Ninety percent of human wisdom is minding your own business, according to Heinlein. He also reminds us that the Earth is a small, fragile basket that cannot hold all human hopes, and that touch is the first sense a baby knows. Another quote warns that stupidity, not malice, often explains odd events.

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A human being has no natural rights of any nature.

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Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

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Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

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Die trying" is the proudest human thing.

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The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

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Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own,…

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I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the…

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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been…

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Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

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All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who…

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English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

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Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were…

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In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is…

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Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and…

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Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating…

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There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune…

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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human…

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The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into…

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All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly…

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He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the…

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,…

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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it…

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Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern…

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Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man…

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Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been…

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At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets,…

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.

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Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

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The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if…

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The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

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Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so…

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Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for…

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Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that…

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Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they…

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Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called…

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Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there…

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Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and…

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Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to…

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Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

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

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“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

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“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

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“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to…

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“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

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Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein”

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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

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