Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINAn armed society is a polite society.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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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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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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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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