Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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 best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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