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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Control Desire Divide Human People Political Race Such
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
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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Collector Drink Make Shoot Strong Vary
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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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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Beautiful Cultivate Do Flower Heavenly Humanity Seed
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Downhill Get Goes Rid Society Troublemaker
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 theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Another Belly Laugh Man One Theology
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
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 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
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
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 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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian

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