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" One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Magic
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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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" 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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" Never insult anyone by accident. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. "
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" May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. "
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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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" 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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" Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. "
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Who
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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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" Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. "
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" I never learned from a man who agreed with me. "
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Learned
Me
" 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. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Events
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" Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. "
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" No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. "
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Because
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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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" 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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" 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. "
Robert A. Heinlein
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Power
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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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Know
Alone
Me
" 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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Authority
Done
" Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. "
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" The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "
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Alive
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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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" Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. "
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Done
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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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" A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. "
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