They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINIt’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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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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