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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. "
Robert A. Heinlein
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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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" 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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" The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. "
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" Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. "
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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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" 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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" You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. "
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" Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. "
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" May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. "
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" I never learned from a man who agreed with me. "
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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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" Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. "
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" For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. "
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" Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. "
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" They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. "
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" When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. "
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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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" One 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. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. "
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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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" 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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" The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "
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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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" Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. "
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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 competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. "
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" Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. "
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