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Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
Richard Ames; chapter 16, p. 200
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“Rod…were you born that stupid? Or did you have to study?”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Tunnel in the Sky

Forrás: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 6, “I Think He Is Dead” (p. 104)

“One time in a hundred a gun might save your life; the other ninety-nine it will just tempt you into folly.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Tunnel in the Sky

Forrás: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 2, “The Fifth Way” (p. 43)

“When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Tunnel in the Sky

Forrás: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 2, “The Fifth Way” (p. 42)

“Fact is, you work too hard…the universe won’t run down if you don’t wind it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Star Beast

Forrás: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 12, “Concerning Pidgie-Widgie” (p. 185)

“I do not like weapons, Doctor; they are the last resort of faulty diplomacy.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Star Beast

Forrás: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 9, “Customs and an Ugly Duckling” (p. 151)

“If you can’t outargue the other fellow, sometimes you can outlive him.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Star Beast

Forrás: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 6, “Space is Deep, Excellency” (p. 110)

“Funny sort of science! I guess they were pretty ignorant in those days.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

“Don’t go running down our grandfathers. If it weren’t for them, you and I would be squatting in a cave, scratching fleas. No, Bub, they were pretty sharp; they just didn’t have all the facts. We’ve got more facts, but that doesn’t make us smarter.”
A Tenderfoot in Space (p. 691)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Earth, seen from space, looked as it had looked in color-stereo pictures, but he found that the real thing is as vastly more satisfying as a hamburger is better than a picture of one.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

A Tenderfoot in Space (p. 689)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“What good is the race of man? Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them, cluttering and wasting a second-string planet near a third-string star. But sometimes they finish in style.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Year of the Jackpot

The Year of the Jackpot (p. 644)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“To be sure, some humans were always doing silly things—but at what point had prime damfoolishness become commonplace? When for example, had the zombie-like professional models become accepted ideals of American womanhood?”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Year of the Jackpot

The Year of the Jackpot (p. 628)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Apparently she believes she is safe. Evil is essentially stupid, Joe; despite her brilliance, she believes what she wishes to believe. Or it may be that she is willing to risk her own death against the tempting prize of absolute power.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Gulf

Gulf (p. 559)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Don’t say that I don’t mix with the common people, Joe; I sell used ’copters for a living. You can’t get any commoner. And don’t imply that my heart is not with them. We are not like them, but we are tied to them by the strongest bond of all, for we are all, each every one, sickening with the same certainly fatal disease—we are alive.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Gulf

Gulf (pp. 556-557)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“A totalitarian political religion is incompatible with free investigation.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Gulf

Gulf (p. 545)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. The little man has no way to judge and the shoddy lies are packaged more attractively. There is no way to offer color to a colorblind man, nor is there any way for us to give the man of imperfect brain the canny skill to distinguish a lie from a truth.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Gulf

Gulf (p. 544)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“For a hundred and fifty years or so democracy, or something like it, could flourish safely. The issues were such as to be settled without disaster by votes of common men, befogged and ignorant as they were. But now, if the race is simply to stay alive, political decisions depend on real knowledge of such things as nuclear physics, planetary ecology, genetic theory, even system mechanics. They aren’t up to it, Joe. With goodness and more will than they possess less than one in a thousand could stay awake over one page of nuclear physics; they can’t learn what they must know.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Gulf

Gulf (p. 544)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“He had the high degree of courage so common in the human race, a race capable of conceiving death, yet able to face its probability daily, on the highway, on the obstetrics table, on the battlefield, in the air, in the subway—and to face lightheartedly the certainty of death in the end.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Goldfish Bowl

Goldfish Bowl (p. 381)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“For vice has this defect; it cannot be truly intelligent. Its very motives are its weakness.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy (p. 339)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“And all over the country the antagonists of human liberty, of human dignity—the racketeers, the crooked political figures, the shysters, the dealers in phony religions, the sweat-shoppers, the petty authoritarians, all of the key figures among the traffickers in human misery and human oppression, themselves somewhat adept in the arts of the mind and acutely aware of the danger of free knowledge—all of this unholy breed stirred uneasily and wondered what was taking place.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy (p. 339)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Cold calculated awareness that their power lay in keeping the people in ignorance.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy (p. 333)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“In the first place there isn’t a distinguished anthropologist in the world but what you’ll find one equally distinguished who will call him a diamond-studded liar. They can’t agree on the simplest elements of their alleged science.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy (p. 301)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“When I was a young student, I thought modern psychology could tell me the answers, but I soon found out that the best psychologists didn’t know a damn thing about the real core of the matter. Oh, I am not disparaging the work that has been done; it was badly needed and had been very useful in its way. None of ’em know what life is, what thought is, whether free will is a reality or an illusion, or whether that last question means anything. The best of ’em admit their ignorance; the worst of them make dogmatic assertions that are obvious absurdities.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy (p. 284)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“He thought of a way to state it: Ego is the point of consciousness, the latest term in a continuously expanding series along the line of memory duration. That sounded like a general statement, but he was not sure; he would have to try to formulate it mathematically before he could trust it. Verbal language had such queer booby traps in it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv By His Bootstraps

By His Bootstraps (p. 257)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv By His Bootstraps

By His Bootstraps (p. 238)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Bob Wilson admitted to himself that a Ph. D. and an appointment as an instructor was not his idea of existence. Still, it beat working for a living.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv By His Bootstraps

By His Bootstraps (p. 234)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Narby had no particular respect for engineers, largely because he had no particular talent for engineering.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Elsewhen

Elsewhen (p. 182)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“I think that’s unfair, Doctor. You certainly don’t expect a man to believe in things that run contrary to his good sense without offering him any reasonable explanation.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Elsewhen

Frost snorted. “I certainly do—if he has observed it with his own eyes and ears, or gets it from a source known to be credible. A fact doesn’t have to be understood to be true. Sure, any reasonable mind wants explanations, but it’s silly to reject facts that don’t fit your philosophy.”
Elsewhen (pp. 161-162)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Imperialism degrades both oppressor and oppressed.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Solution Unsatisfactory

Solution Unsatisfactory (p. 98)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“It is very difficult to tuck a bugle call back into a bugle. Pandora’s Box is a one-way proposition. You can turn a pig into sausage, but not sausage into pig. Broken eggs stay broken.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Solution Unsatisfactory

Solution Unsatisfactory (p. 67)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)