No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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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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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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