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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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