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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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