A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINEverything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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