The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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