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“Of all the strange “crimes” that human beings have legislated out of nothing, “blasphemy” is the most amazing—with “obscenity” and “indecent exposure” fighting it out for second and third place.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love

“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love

“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love

“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“one of the few things I’ve learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn’t often—on their own, the hard way.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love

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