A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheology 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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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, 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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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 human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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.
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