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The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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. Specialization is for insects.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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