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Brainpower is the scarcest co...

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or ...

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

when faced with a problem you...

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Humoring them costs nothing a...

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

I have spent too much of my l...

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Learning isn't a means to an ...

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Do not confuse "duty" with wh...

Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

From somewhere, back in my yo...

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.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

"Peace" is a condition in whi...

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Darling, a true lady takes of...

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.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Always store beer in a dark p...

Always store beer in a dark place.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

It’s not enough to be able to...

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

I've found out why people lau...

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Sex, whatever else it is, is ...

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Sin is cruelty and injustice,...

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Behind every mystery lies ano...

Behind every mystery lies another mystery.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

There is no conclusive eviden...

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?

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Death is an old friend; I kno...

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

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Consider the black widow spid...

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Never do today what you can p...

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....