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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Come Being Fortune Generous Good Happy Joy Life One Sanest Sure
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Alive Anyone Get Hard Irony Life Supreme
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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Acquire Cred Law Legislate Political Power Religion
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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Church End Forbidden Government Holy Matter Motive Oppression Result Subject Tyranny Undertake
Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Act Back Good Life Manager May One When
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Anyone Cat Consider Dealt Protocol Unimportant
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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Assume Condition Disease Greater Healthy Immature Jealously Mistake Other
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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Alone Free Matter Morally Obnoxious Responsible Rule Surround Tolerate
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Civilized Cure Even No Render Tame Way Writer
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Being Right Social Soon Too Unacceptable
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Another Belly Laugh Man One Theology
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Cat Dog Idea Men Please Relax Should Used Women
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Control Desire Divide Human People Political Race Such
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Basic Communist Conservative Criteria Democrat Fascist Forth Liberal Political Royalist Tag

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