History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of
Robert A. HeinleinTags: truth history religion theology
Writing can be learned, but not taught.
Robert A. HeinleinVictory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: unsung-heroes victory-defeat
Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: cat-humor
Home is the place in deepest space
Where star etched memories burn,
Home is that sigh for a color of sky
and a will to return.
Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: libertarianism prohibitionism
I don't pay much attention to politics."
"You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.
Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law."
"They are? Only from on top.
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: stranger-in-a-strange-land
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: stranger-in-a-strange-land
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