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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
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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Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
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
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Long Machinery never Suposoe Worry
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Basic Communist Conservative Criteria Democrat Fascist Forth Liberal Political Royalist Tag
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
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
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
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
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
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Cat Dog Idea Men Please Relax Should Used Women
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
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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Become Correct Ever Fun More Offer Optimist Perrimist
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Alive Anyone Get Hard Irony Life Supreme
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin

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