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| a10ce19 | The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys. I was not joking when I told them to dig into their own pouches. It may not be possible to do away with government - sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive - and can you think of a better way than by requiring the governors themselves to pay the costs of the.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| db35a9c | There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. Man was his own grimmest joke on himself. The very bedrock of humor was-- "Man is the animal who laughs," | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 943d284 | The verdict to be passed on the third planet around Sol was never in doubt. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 627fb7c | certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fb306f7 | Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, 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. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 74ad205 | A generation which ignores history has no past--and no future. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fe7edd0 | Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is. | land love natural ownership people property slaves | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 85abb5d | There is a misconception, geocentric and anthropomorphic, common to the large majority the the earthbound, which causes them to visualize a planetary system stereoscopically. The mind's eye sees a sun, remote from a backdrop of stars, and surrounded by spinning apples -- the planets. Step out on your balcony and look. Can you tell the planets from the stars? Venus you may pick out with ease, but could you tell it from Canopus, if you had no.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 15bf799 | My dear, religion is a null area in the law. A church can do anything any organization can do--and has no restrictions. It pays no taxes, need not publish records, is effectively immune to search, inspection, or control--and a church is anything that calls itself a church. Attempts have been made to distinguish between 'real' religions entitled to immunities, and 'cults.' It can't be done, short of establishing a state religion . . . a cure.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2e78186 | Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 63b3c57 | In that way they really were friends, understanding in their basic disagreement, trusting in their complete distrust and enjoying one another's company. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| a5111ae | You're remembering well today,' she said. 'Don't do it too much. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 9a49d31 | Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. | enemy live people war | Ernest Hemingway | |
| ea1cb28 | yn dstnh mtqDy ndrnd, wly rwzy anh r khwhnd fhmyd; hmn Twr khh bry nqshyh hm yn tfq myftd. fqT bh zmn Htyj st w `tmd bh nfs... | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 5881f93 | if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it. | waiting writing | Ernest Hemingway | |
| a237bb6 | He felt as though he were hailing a ship. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 20e259c | The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish. | law-of-nature sea-life wonder | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 8922b51 | If you have plenty of money, want not to see but to have seen a bullfight and plan no matter whether you like it or not to leave after the first bull, buy a barrera seat so that someone who has never had enough money to sit in a barrera can make a quick rush from above and occupy your expensive seat as you go out taking your pre-conceived opinions with you. | tourist | Ernest Hemingway | |
| cd675c8 | He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d871d95 | We ate well and cheaply and we drank well and cheaply and we slept well and warm together and loved each other. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 276ba0a | That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you changed as it changed. We never went back to the Vorarlberg and neither did the rich. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| dddd1f0 | Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. | creativity god overrated seventh | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 85bc7d4 | Nobody likes to life anchors. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6a5e11e | However you make your living is where your talent lies | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7fd9ee0 | When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| cc29730 | Because she had done the best she could for many years back and the way they were together now was no one person's fault. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| e6b0f39 | The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| dc3d3ec | You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures." | values | Ernest Hemingway | |
| f628386 | All our words from loose using have lost their edge. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 68c499b | I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. | rest | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 46df483 | Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it. This may not be true but he had believed it to be t.. | loneliness | Ernest Hemingway | |
| c206911 | Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be. | good-writing life-experience storytelling truth | Ernest Hemingway | |
| e58bf49 | I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| ded159a | We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childish has become a term of contempt. "Don't be childish, darling." "I hope to Christ I am. Don't be childish yourself." It is possible to be grateful that no one that you would willingly associate with you say, "Be mature. Be well-balanced, be well-adjusted." Africa, being as old as it is, makes all people except the professional invaders and.. | childish children | Ernest Hemingway | |
| f1b6264 | He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any favors or for any different treatment than all the men were receiving. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| aa82c60 | You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 88bec5a | He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes. He had flashes of the old greatness with his bulls, but they were not of value because he had discounted them in advance when he had picked the bulls out for their safety, getting out of a motor and leaning on a fence, looking over at the herd on the ranch of his friend the bull-breeder. So he had two small, manageable bulls withou.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f6c79de | You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f603bf2 | I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was a Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 1b7ce78 | If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6d1e729 | It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 85f4beb | It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 1715b27 | We went down the stairs to the cafe on the ground floor. I had discovered that was the best way to get rid of friends. Once you had a drink all you had to say was: "Well, I've got to get back and get off some cables," and it was done. It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f03b55a | You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. | Ernest Hemingway |