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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Assume Condition Disease Greater Healthy Immature Jealously Mistake Other
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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Become Correct Ever Fun More Offer Optimist Perrimist
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Both Count Ever Freedom Once Peace
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Afterward Ashamed Necessary Private Something Wash Write
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
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
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
I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Article Cloth How Indecent Person Yes
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Collector Drink Make Shoot Strong Vary
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Another Engineering Magic Man Null One Supernatural World
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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Around Blunder Dull Fantasy Matter Strange Wonderful
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
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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Beautiful Cultivate Do Flower Heavenly Humanity Seed
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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Assemble Authority Done Happen Highest History never Pronouncement Reverse
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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Collapse Crowd Elsewhere Get Place Require Social Time

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