Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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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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