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21 " Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Time Enough for Love
22 " Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. "
23 " Sense is never common. "
24 " Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love. "
25 " The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about. "
26 " Everybody lies about sex. "
27 " Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.) "
28 " 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. "
29 " Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers. "
30 " A motion to adjourn is always in order. "
31 " People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. "
32 " She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned—rather slowly; I wasn’t too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try. "
33 " 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, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. "
34 " Till the stars grow old and our sun grows cold? Will you fight for us, lie for us, love us - and let us love you? "
35 " Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. "
36 " Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite. "
37 " Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. "
38 " one of the few things I’ve learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn’t often—on their own, the hard way. "
39 " Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. "
40 " Of all the strange “crimes” that human beings have legislated out of nothing, “blasphemy” is the most amazing—with “obscenity” and “indecent exposure” fighting it out for second and third place. "