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"Oh, "Tanstaafl." Means "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." And isn't,' I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, 'or these drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless."
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"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
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"Life can only be experienced."
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"Infinite and finite are both mental constructs."
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"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."
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"Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely."
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"You pays your money and you takes your choice."
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"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."
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"To live a fantasy is to avoid a life."
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"You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real."
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"Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?"
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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."
Religion
"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?"
Mortality
"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."
Values
"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."
Happiness
"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
Reality
"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."
Art
"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."
Politics
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."
Politics
"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."
Help
"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."
Theology
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