We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies And the cool green hills of Earth.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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Av alla de så kallade naturliga mänskliga rättigheter som någonsin uppfunnits, är friheten den man minst ofta får billigt och aldrig gratis.
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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 of anything.
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Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
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Of all the strange crimes that human beings have legislated of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for the second and third place.
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Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.
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A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
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Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
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Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system
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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
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A Libertarian Movement slogan
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain
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Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
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Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
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