You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBeing right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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