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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThey didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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No 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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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