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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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 man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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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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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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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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