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

Robert A. Heinlein

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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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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
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Downhill Get Goes Rid Society Troublemaker
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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Beautiful Cultivate Do Flower Heavenly Humanity Seed
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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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 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
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
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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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
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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Collector May Miss Not Paas Shoot Temptation Yield
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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