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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThey didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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