For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNo statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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