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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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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 don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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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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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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