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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Downhill Get Goes Rid Society Troublemaker
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
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Alone Do Everything Free Love Morally Responsible
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 best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Best Elsewhere Made Possible Space Thing Travel
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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Belief Discuss Group Indulgence Juicy Piece Room
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
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
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
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Being Right Social Soon Too Unacceptable
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
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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Around Blunder Dull Fantasy Matter Strange Wonderful
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
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
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 insult anyone by accident.
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Accident Anyone Insult never One Liner
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
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
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Anyone Cat Consider Dealt Protocol Unimportant
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
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Excercise Love Merely Neathy Sex
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Come Being Fortune Generous Good Happy Joy Life One Sanest Sure
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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Collapse Crowd Elsewhere Get Place Require Social Time
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Long Machinery never Suposoe Worry

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