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. HEINLEINNever worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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