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Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but...

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.

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Selfishness is the bedrock on ...

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Take sex away from people. Mak...

Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word 'psychology' was ever invented. It works, too.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

The future is better than the ...

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

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There is solemn satisfaction i...

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

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Pain is the basic mechanism bu...

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

The basic of all morality is d...

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

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Liberty is never unalienable, ...

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Anyone who can worship a trini...

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Make money, lose money - who c...

Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.

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Tilting at windmills hurts you...

Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

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Of all the creatures on this p...

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

One might define adulthood as ...

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Talking with a Martian is some...

Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

He had learned that close-held...

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

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Peace is a condition in which ...

Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story 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.

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The most expensive thing in th...

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

War is not violence and killin...

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.

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Nothing of value is free. Even...

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

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If possible,
leave room...

If possible,
leave room for your enemy
to become your friend.

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...

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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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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....