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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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
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
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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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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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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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Anything Persuade Themselves Theologian
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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Being Right Social Soon Too Unacceptable
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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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Article Cloth How Indecent Person Yes
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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Acute Endure Food Isolation Poke Private Provide Room Science Solution Stick
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
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Children Easy Handicap Live Make
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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