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- One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
- 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…
- I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I…
- But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad…
- There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so…
- Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
- It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one…
- I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the…
- Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in…
- Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,…
- Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
- 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…
- 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…
- If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
- You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
- 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.…
- 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…
- I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will…
- Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial…
- ...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why…
- One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.
- One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
- Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest…
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