"Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Self Quotes #Roots Quotes #Evil Quotes

“We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love.”
“I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.”
“Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.”
“The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.”

Source : J. Arthur Thomson (2008). “The Outline of Science, First Volume”, p.185, Wildside Press LLC
“the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.”
“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
“I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.”
“Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.”

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