Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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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 human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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