They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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