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

Robert A. Heinlein

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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Anyone Cat Consider Dealt Protocol Unimportant
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
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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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Control Desire Divide Human People Political Race Such
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Done Everything Impossible Theoretically Until
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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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
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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Excercise Love Merely Neathy Sex
Never insult anyone by accident.
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Accident Anyone Insult never One Liner
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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An armed society is a polite society.
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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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