The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINIt 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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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 difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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