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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Around Blunder Dull Fantasy Matter Strange Wonderful
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
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
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Agree Learn Ma Me never
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Long Machinery never Suposoe Worry
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Alone Do Everything Free Love Morally Responsible
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
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
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
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Difference Fuzzy Merely Other Require Reson Scholarship Science Subject
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
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
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Another Condition Essential Happiness Love Own Person Your
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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Belief Discuss Group Indulgence Juicy Piece Room

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