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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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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
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
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

Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
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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Beautiful Cultivate Do Flower Heavenly Humanity Seed
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
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
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
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
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
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
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 handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Children Easy Handicap Live Make
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
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
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

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