For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThey didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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 handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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