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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Robert A. Heinlein

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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Another Engineering Magic Man Null One Supernatural World
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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Assume Condition Disease Greater Healthy Immature Jealously Mistake Other
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Collector Drink Make Shoot Strong Vary
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian
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
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Another Belly Laugh Man One Theology
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Agree Learn Ma Me never
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
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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Collapse Crowd Elsewhere Get Place Require Social Time
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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Church End Forbidden Government Holy Matter Motive Oppression Result Subject Tyranny Undertake
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.
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Around Blunder Dull Fantasy Matter Strange Wonderful
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
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Excercise Love Merely Neathy Sex
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Contact Government Sense Suspect Universum Didi Make
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Come Being Fortune Generous Good Happy Joy Life One Sanest Sure
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
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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Belief Discuss Group Indulgence Juicy Piece Room
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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Black Dark Help Midnight never Search Theology
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Alive Anyone Get Hard Irony Life Supreme
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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Beautiful Cultivate Do Flower Heavenly Humanity Seed
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Alone Do Everything Free Love Morally Responsible
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
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Downhill Get Goes Rid Society Troublemaker

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