The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
("Stranger in a Strange Land")
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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.Robert A. Heinlein
The verdict to be passed on the third planet around Sol was never in doubt.
Robert A. Heinlein
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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