"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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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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"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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"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
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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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"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
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