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" Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. "

Robert A. Heinlein

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" I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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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" 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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" 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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" One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. "

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" I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. "

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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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" There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. 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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" 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. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. "

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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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" 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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" Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. "

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