You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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