To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
("Starship Troopers")
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The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arroganceself-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch comejudgment day.Robert A. Heinlein
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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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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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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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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