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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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
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
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
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Contact Government Sense Suspect Universum Didi Make
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
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
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
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Come Being Fortune Generous Good Happy Joy Life One Sanest Sure
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
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 never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Agree Learn Ma Me never
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Civilization Non Politeness Qua Sin
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
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
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Done Everything Impossible Theoretically Until
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
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
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
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
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
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
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Good Want Wanted Wednesday
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
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
The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Best Elsewhere Made Possible Space Thing Travel

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