They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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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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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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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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