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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBeing right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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