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. HEINLEINThe human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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