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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Control Desire Divide Human People Political Race Such
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Best Elsewhere Made Possible Space Thing Travel
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Anyone Cat Consider Dealt Protocol Unimportant
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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Assume Condition Disease Greater Healthy Immature Jealously Mistake Other
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
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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Church End Forbidden Government Holy Matter Motive Oppression Result Subject Tyranny Undertake
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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Black Dark Help Midnight never Search Theology
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Both Count Ever Freedom Once Peace
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Children Easy Handicap Live Make
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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Come Being Fortune Generous Good Happy Joy Life One Sanest Sure
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Collector Drink Make Shoot Strong Vary
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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Beautiful Cultivate Do Flower Heavenly Humanity Seed
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Difference Fuzzy Merely Other Require Reson Scholarship Science Subject
One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Another Engineering Magic Man Null One Supernatural World
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement

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