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An armed society is a polite society.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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
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
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
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
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
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
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
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
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
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
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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Acute Endure Food Isolation Poke Private Provide Room Science Solution Stick
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Agree Learn Ma Me never
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
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
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
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

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