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" Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. "

Robert A. Heinlein

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" One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. "

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" Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. "

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" They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. "

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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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" Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. "

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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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" Never insult anyone by accident. "

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

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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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" 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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