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" Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Being
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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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" Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. "
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" One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. "
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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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" For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. "
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" Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. "
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" Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. "
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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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" An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. "
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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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" The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "
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" The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. "
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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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" 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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" A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. "
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" I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. "
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" Never insult anyone by accident. "
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" By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. "
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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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" 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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" One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. "
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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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" They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. "
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" I never learned from a man who agreed with me. "
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" No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. "
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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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" A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. "
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