Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINWhen a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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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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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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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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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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