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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Agree Learn Ma Me never
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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Long Machinery never Suposoe Worry
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Article Cloth How Indecent Person Yes
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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Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Cat Dog Idea Men Please Relax Should Used Women
Never insult anyone by accident.
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Accident Anyone Insult never One Liner
An armed society is a polite society.
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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
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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