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" Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Power
Underestimate
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" For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. "
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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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" A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. "
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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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" Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. "
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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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" 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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" A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. "
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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 difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. "
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" One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. "
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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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" 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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Never
Searching
" Never insult anyone by accident. "
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Never
Insult
" 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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" Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. "
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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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" 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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" Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. "
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Wash
" No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. "
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Because
Authority
" I never learned from a man who agreed with me. "
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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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" Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. "
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" Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. "
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" The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "
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" One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. "
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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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