Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBy 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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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