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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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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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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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Human never ower Stupidity Underestimate
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Article Cloth How Indecent Person Yes
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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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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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Live Long May Wish
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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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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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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The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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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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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Alive Anyone Get Hard Irony Life Supreme
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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