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- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.
- Joan Rivers (1935 - )
- My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
- Emo Philips
- The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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