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" The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "
Robert A. Heinlein
Irony
Alive
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Never insult anyone by accident. "
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" The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. "
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" May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. "
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" Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. "
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" Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. "
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" I never learned from a man who agreed with me. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. "
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" Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. "
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" One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. "
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