Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.
No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.
I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
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 (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
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