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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Another Belly Laugh Man One Theology
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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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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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
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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