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Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!
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arts
diy
funding
grant
self-support
libertarianism
support
government
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
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american-values
sexuality
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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What did I want? I wanted a Roc's egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword,. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted to get u feeling brisk and go out and break some lances, then pick a like wench for my droit du seigneur--I wanted to stand up to the Baron and dare him to tou..
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
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freedom
news
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well--something in math--but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about."
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ed431f6
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Everybody lies about sex.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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6a441b6
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Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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97e8bb1
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A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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50cd9a1
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Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ef35e56
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One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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a4d53e7
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Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)"
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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7c7d3e1
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Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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dc0b256
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I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey...
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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b83d33d
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Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ef35bca
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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7645521
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Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.
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sex
lady
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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88448d8
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The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.
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funny
humor
kittens
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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b5895bc
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I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... But that's not all people laugh at." Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought..
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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b23e30b
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The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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b09b860
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Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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7f0c131
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He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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73b6330
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The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal insi..
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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cdcae6c
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It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
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fun
obligations
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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f8f7239
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Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.
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religion
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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529ba86
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Women talk when they want to. Or don't.
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truth
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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fc20afd
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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms
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violence
pascifism
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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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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Robert A. Heinlein |
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c13698c
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The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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1b7b0a4
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People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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0a6dd52
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Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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fa58f70
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In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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63f518f
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As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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f022604
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a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ad2dbcf
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Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws -- always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pas..
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prohibitionism
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Robert A. Heinlein |