The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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