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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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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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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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