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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Done Everything Impossible Theoretically Until
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
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
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
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 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
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Excercise Love Merely Neathy Sex
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
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
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Agree Learn Ma Me never
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
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
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Contact Government Sense Suspect Universum Didi Make
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
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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