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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Belief Discuss Group Indulgence Juicy Piece Room
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Children Easy Handicap Live Make
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Cat Dog Idea Men Please Relax Should Used Women
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Another Belly Laugh Man One Theology
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Anyone Cat Consider Dealt Protocol Unimportant
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Excercise Love Merely Neathy Sex
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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Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
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
Never insult anyone by accident.
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Accident Anyone Insult never One Liner
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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Around Blunder Dull Fantasy Matter Strange Wonderful
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
Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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Afterward Ashamed Necessary Private Something Wash Write
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
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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Collapse Crowd Elsewhere Get Place Require Social Time
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
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Downhill Get Goes Rid Society Troublemaker
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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Alone Free Matter Morally Obnoxious Responsible Rule Surround Tolerate
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
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
One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Another Engineering Magic Man Null One Supernatural World
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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Black Dark Help Midnight never Search Theology
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
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
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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