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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Another Condition Essential Happiness Love Own Person Your
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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Acute Endure Food Isolation Poke Private Provide Room Science Solution Stick
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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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
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian
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
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Anyone Cat Consider Dealt Protocol Unimportant
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
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
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
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
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Children Easy Handicap Live Make
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Basic Communist Conservative Criteria Democrat Fascist Forth Liberal Political Royalist Tag
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
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

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