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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Another Condition Essential Happiness Love Own Person Your
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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Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Being Right Social Soon Too Unacceptable
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Another Engineering Magic Man Null One Supernatural World
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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Acquire Cred Law Legislate Political Power Religion
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Collector Drink Make Shoot Strong Vary
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Difference Fuzzy Merely Other Require Reson Scholarship Science Subject
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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Assume Condition Disease Greater Healthy Immature Jealously Mistake Other
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Both Count Ever Freedom Once Peace
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Basic Communist Conservative Criteria Democrat Fascist Forth Liberal Political Royalist Tag
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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Alone Free Matter Morally Obnoxious Responsible Rule Surround Tolerate
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Cat Dog Idea Men Please Relax Should Used Women
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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Become Correct Ever Fun More Offer Optimist Perrimist
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Afterward Ashamed Necessary Private Something Wash Write
Never insult anyone by accident.
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Accident Anyone Insult never One Liner
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Civilized Cure Even No Render Tame Way Writer
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Alive Anyone Get Hard Irony Life Supreme
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Contact Government Sense Suspect Universum Didi Make
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Another Belly Laugh Man One Theology
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Control Desire Divide Human People Political Race Such
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement

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