It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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