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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINWomen and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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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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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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