Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese

Robert Anson Heinlein era autore di fantascienza statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“I grok in fullness.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Origine: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Origine: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Fanteria dello spazio

Origine: Starship Troopers

“One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.”

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“A managed democracy is a wonderful thing… for the managers… and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Origine: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Origine: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Fanteria dello spazio

Origine: Starship Troopers

“Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death… before they breed more hemophiliacs.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Origine: Stranger in a Strange Land

“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday

“Everybody lies about sex.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Origine: Time Enough for Love

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

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“Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings… but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Origine: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast

“A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Stella doppia

Origine: Double Star

“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part… and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Fanteria dello spazio

Origine: Starship Troopers

“Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Origine: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it’s done. 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.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Between Planets

Origine: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 2, “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” (p. 23)

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Origine: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls