For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI 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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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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 universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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