Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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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An armed society is a polite society.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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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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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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 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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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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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