Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne 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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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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