The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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