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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Control Desire Divide Human People Political Race Such
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
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
I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Article Cloth How Indecent Person Yes
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Downhill Get Goes Rid Society Troublemaker
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
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
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
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Being Right Social Soon Too Unacceptable
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
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
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
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Done Everything Impossible Theoretically Until

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