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freedom Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein | freedom

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

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freedom Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein | freedom

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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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Food Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein | food

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

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Robert A. Heinlein | best

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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Quote from Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none.

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Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land

Quote from Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

If you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.

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Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land

Quote from Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

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Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land

Quote from Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir… kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.

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Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land

Quote from Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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 and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as “worship.

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