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Letter "R" » Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
«To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
as a matter of fact, blunder, fantasy, fantasy world, real world, The Real World
«The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
fuzzy, reasoning, scholarship, subjects
«By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.»
«The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.»
«For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Politeness
| Keywords:
politeness, qua, sine, sine qua non
«It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Gossip
| Keywords:
discuss, gossip, indulgence, indulgences, it An, juicy, sit in
«Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
History,
Violence
| Keywords:
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«Never insult anyone by accident.»
«A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
old woman, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, ruined, sensitivity, viewer, viewers, young girl
«A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.»
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