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Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.
The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.
I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.
To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness
As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.
Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.