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"Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"

"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."

"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."

"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."

"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."

"Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together."

"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."

"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."

"Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session, you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer."

"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."
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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"


"The best things in life are beyond money, their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value."


"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."


"Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time."


"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."


"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."


"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good-and is no sillier than any other theology."
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