Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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 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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An armed society is a polite society.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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 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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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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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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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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