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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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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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