Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese

Robert Anson Heinlein era autore di fantascienza statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Origine: Stranger in a Strange Land

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Fanteria dello spazio

Origine: Starship Troopers

“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Origine: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Origine: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die… and accepts his sentence undismayed.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Origine: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey…”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Glory Road

Origine: Glory Road

“His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.”

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“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Origine: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Origine: Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday

“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Origine: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Fanteria dello spazio

Origine: Starship Troopers

“He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Origine: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Star Beast

Origine: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 14, “Destiny? Fiddlesticks!” (p. 219)

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday

“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”

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“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Origine: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long