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Robert A. Heinlein

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If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
From The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Topic: Funny
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Topic: Funny
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
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Topic: Funny
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Topic: Life
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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Topic: Religion
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Philosophical
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Education
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Topic: Funny
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
From Have Space Suit—Will Travel
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Topic: Inspirational, Life, Philosophical
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
From Time Enough for Love
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Topic: Religion
The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
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Topic: Happiness
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
From Time Enough for Love
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Topic: Inspirational
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Happiness
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.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Death
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
From The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Topic: Funny
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Topic: Funny
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
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Topic: Funny
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Topic: Life
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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Topic: Religion
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Philosophical
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Education
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Topic: Funny
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
From Have Space Suit—Will Travel
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Topic: Inspirational, Life, Philosophical
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
From Time Enough for Love
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Topic: Religion
The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
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Topic: Happiness
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
From Time Enough for Love
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Topic: Inspirational
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Happiness
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.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Death
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
From The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Topic: Funny
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Topic: Funny
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
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Topic: Funny
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Topic: Life
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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Topic: Religion
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Philosophical
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Education
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Topic: Funny
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
From Have Space Suit—Will Travel
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Topic: Inspirational, Life, Philosophical
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
From Time Enough for Love
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Topic: Religion
The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Religion
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
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Topic: Happiness
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
From Time Enough for Love
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Topic: Inspirational
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Happiness
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.
From Stranger in a Strange Land
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Topic: Death