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Its very variety, subtlety, an...

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

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Consider the black widow spide...

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

In the absence of clearly-defi...

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

How you behave toward cats her...

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

A poet who reads his verse in ...

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Delusions are often functional...

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Anyone who cannot cope with ma...

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Men rarely if ever dream up a ...

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

The power to tax, once concede...

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

There will always be survivors...

There will always be survivors.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

What is supposed to happen in ...

What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Live and learn, or you don't l...

Live and learn, or you don't live long.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting ...

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Touch is the most fundamental ...

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

I'll give you an exact definit...

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

On the steps of the Federal Bu...

On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

From the strictest humanitaria...

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Sin lies only in hurting other...

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.

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The death rate is the same for...

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

Robert Heinlein 746 quotes

Secrecy is the beginning of ty...

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

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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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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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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....