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41 " Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land
42 " But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. "
43 " . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. "
44 " In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. "
45 " Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. "
46 " I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attention. They can’t. No matter how hard they try parts of their minds are on something else. Missing the last bus—or their chances of making the gal—or their own techniques in kissing—or maybe worry about jobs, or money, or will husband or papa or the neighbors catch on. Mike doesn’t have technique . . . but when Mike 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 isn’t going anywhere. Just kissing you. "
47 " All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. "
48 " Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study? "
49 " The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort. "
50 " Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together. "
51 " His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. "
52 " He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once. "
53 " As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have... "
54 " The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up. "
55 " My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself. "
56 " He's an honest politician--he stays bought. "
57 " I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. "
58 " There is no safety this side of the grave "
59 " I never do anything I don’t want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it. "
60 " I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. "