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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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
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
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
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
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
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
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian
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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Black Dark Help Midnight never Search Theology
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
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Authority Believe Made Statement
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
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
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
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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Competent Confident Incapable Insecurity Invariably Jealousy Neurotic Person Self
An armed society is a polite society.
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Arm Polite Society
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Excercise Love Merely Neathy Sex

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