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- The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
- When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and…
- A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not…
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
- Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
- From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
- But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and…
- Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
- Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story unless that…
- But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because…
- Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly)…
- The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves…
- I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I…
- Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to…
- Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other…
- It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one…
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