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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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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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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
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

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