By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINWhen 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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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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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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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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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