No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINAnyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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