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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

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
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Done Everything Impossible Theoretically Until
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
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
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
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
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
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Anyone Cat Consider Dealt Protocol Unimportant
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Being Right Social Soon Too Unacceptable
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
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Children Easy Handicap Live Make
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
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
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
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Agree Learn Ma Me never
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
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
Never insult anyone by accident.
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Accident Anyone Insult never One Liner
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
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
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
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
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
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian

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