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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Robert A. Heinlein

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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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