Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price
When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.
Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially.
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.
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 don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.
Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.
Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.
War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.
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