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Always store beer in a dark p...

Always store beer in a dark place.

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or ...

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

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Brainpower is the scarcest co...

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

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Note the individual and subje...

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

The country and culture commo...

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Any group is weaker than a ma...

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Social responsibility above t...

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

People who are busy and happy...

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Women seem to have almost unl...

Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

His older self had taught his...

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Man has no moral instinct. He...

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Budget the luxuries first. ...

Budget the luxuries first.

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...

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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....