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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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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
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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Acute Endure Food Isolation Poke Private Provide Room Science Solution Stick
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
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
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Downhill Get Goes Rid Society Troublemaker
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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Beautiful Cultivate Do Flower Heavenly Humanity Seed
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Done Everything Impossible Theoretically Until
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Being Right Social Soon Too Unacceptable
Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Act Back Good Life Manager May One When
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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Church End Forbidden Government Holy Matter Motive Oppression Result Subject Tyranny Undertake
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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Black Dark Help Midnight never Search Theology
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

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