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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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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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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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