Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINAnyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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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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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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 best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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