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1	-> How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
2	-->-- '''Doctor Pinero''', ''Life Line, 1939''
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4	-> You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
5	-->-- '''Logic of Empire (1941)''', ''Precursor to HanlonsRazor''
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7	-> Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
8	-->-- '''Assignment in Eternity (1953)'''
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10	-> Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. 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.
11	-->-- '''Literature/TheRollingStones1952'''
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13	-> Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
14	-->-- '''The Rolling Stones (1952)'''
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16	-> Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
17	-->-- '''Literature/DoubleStar (1956)'''
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19	-> Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
20	-->-- '''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand (1961)'''
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22	->''[[HardOnSoftScience Everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.]]''
23	-->-- '''Literature/StarshipTroopers (1959)'''
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25	-> How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show — it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
26	-->-- '''The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)'''[[note]]this may be the origin of a remark which in recent years has sometimes become misattributed to Creator/MarkTwain: "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."[[/note]]
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