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History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
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There's no virtue in being old, it just takes a long time.
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Common sense?""Son, that phrase is self-contradictory. 'Sense' is never 'common.'"
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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Lazarus expressed a rhetorical and physiologically improbable wish.
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The purpose of my government is never to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.
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Do not ask why; it was no more subject to rational explanation than is any other branch of theology.
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Don't ask me why. It was Navy policy and therefore did not have a reason.
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A capsule description of most human "progress": By the time you learn how, it's too late.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Whoring is like military service, Ira -- okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
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Whores perform the same function as priests, Ira, but far more thoroughly.
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'Put not your faith in princes,' Ira; since they don't produce, they always steal.
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Latin is majestic, especially when you don't understand it.
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Half the battle with any culture is knowing its taboos.
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Privacy is as necessary as company; you can drive a man crazy by depriving him of either.
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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
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If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
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The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful.
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Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
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Love is what still goes on when you are not horny.
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
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Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
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Natural laws have no pity.
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
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Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
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I came, I saw, she conquered." (The original Latin seems to have been garbled.)
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He saw that he had committed the prime sin against survival: He had indulged in wishful thinking.
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