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8fee13a
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God created men to test the souls of women.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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4ae1365
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Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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646c1ae
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Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
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sex
humor
technophobes
wit
technology
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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4af8bfe
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If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated an..
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worship
religion
god
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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a0fbe78
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I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled."
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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a676355
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Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
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dicta
building-industry
cheops
khufu
megalomania
pyramids
building
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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1b7ac50
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Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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3767067
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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abdf009
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He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ed3116a
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The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.
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sins-of-omission
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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fe7f925
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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8832e52
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I've been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don't give kissing their whole attention. They can't. No matter how hard they try parts of their minds are on something else. Missing the last bus--or their chances of making the gal--or their own techniques in kissing--or maybe worry about jobs, or money, or will husband or papa or the neighbors catch on. Mike doesn't have technique . . . but when Mike kisses you he isn't doing anyt..
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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3cf6140
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I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. 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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Robert A. Heinlein |
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8d5a572
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Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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5016f41
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To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
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voting
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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682bb8d
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Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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3e46a45
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Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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8432263
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I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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afd0e1c
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I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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fe7b2e6
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Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ed33ceb
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My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
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volunteer
volunteering
volunteerism
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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0ec4493
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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
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fear
folly
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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11a0ba5
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Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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9456a3d
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Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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7656c14
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Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
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politics
witty
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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5943485
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Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ed08759
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Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
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elderly
old-people
seniors
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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26dc77c
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Sense is never common.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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c410047
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A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame... as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations..
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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cff6438
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If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives and maybe getting yourself killed . . . and even losing the war . . . when you've got a real weapon you can use to win? What's the point in a whole lot of men risking their lives with obsolete weapons when one professor type can do so much more just b..
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violence
war
moral-philosophy
military
training
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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3726f46
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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ef9245c
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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
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taxes
government
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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dfc0eb1
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Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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9f4e308
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Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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60d2f7d
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Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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da591a5
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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
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violence
democracy
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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3539ccc
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A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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1ea05d4
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Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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760660e
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Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
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money
motivation
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ecbf168
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The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the..
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morality
moral
survival
survival-instinct
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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c33d468
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There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?
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faith
spiritual
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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e5af11b
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I grok in fullness.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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95c7e19
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Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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7ee2d95
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One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.
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Robert A. Heinlein |