One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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