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Robert Anson Heinlein foi um escritor de ficção científica norte-americano. Produziu 56 contos e 30 romances, ainda hoje seus livros vendem mais de 100 mil cópias por ano. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Julho 1907 – 8. Maio 1988   •   Outros nomes Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
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“Mulheres e gatos agirão como quiserem, e homens e cães devem relaxar e acostumar-se à ideia.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Hein? Ah, você tem que cobrar deles, Jubal. Os otários não prestam atenção se for de graça.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Livro Um Estranho Numa Terra Estranha

“Ah, sim, eu groko otários, Jubal. No começo eu pregava de graça. Não funcionou. Nós, humanos, precisamos progredir consideravelmente antes de receber um presente de graça, e valorizá-lo.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Livro Um Estranho Numa Terra Estranha

“Eu sabia disso, queria saber se você também.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Livro Um Estranho Numa Terra Estranha

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“Um puritano é uma pessoa que pensa que suas próprias noções de propriedade são leis naturais.”

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“Deus dividiu-se numa miríade de partes para que pudesse ter amigos.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Isto pode não ser verdade, mas soa bem -- e não é mais tolo do que qualquer outra teologia.
"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends." This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973, Página 216.

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“O amor é a condição para que a felicidade de outra pessoa seja essencial para a sua.”

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Robert A. Heinlein: Frases em inglês

“These savages and their false gods! I grow weary of them. Yet they are necessary; the priests and the gods of slaves always fight on the side of the Masters. It is a rule of nature.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Sixth Column

Fonte: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 62)

““Can I trust you, my friend?”
“If you can’t, then what is my assurance worth?””

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Beyond This Horizon

Fonte: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 4, “Boy meets Girl”, p. 48

“I found out a long time ago that you have to take some chances in this life. Otherwise you are just a vegetable, headed for the soup pot.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Red Planet

Fonte: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 10, “We’re Boxed In!”, p. 145

“I was too busy to oblige them by dying just now.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro If This Goes On

If This Goes On— (p. 412)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“People don’t really want change, any change at all — and xenophobia is very deep-rooted. But we progress, as we must — if we are to go out to the stars.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Double Star

Double Star (1956)

“All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday

Fonte: Friday (1983), Ch. XXI, p. 214

““Look, Chief—is it really necessary to kill everybody here? I don’t relish it.”
“Don’t get chicken, son,” admonished Ardmore with an edge in his voice. “This is war—and war is no joke. There is no such thing as a humane war.””

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Sixth Column

Fonte: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 10 (p. 129)

“Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Job: A Comedy of Justice

Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)

“I can’t evaluate my opinions of right and wrong because I learned them from my parents and haven’t lived long enough to have formed opinions in disagreement with theirs.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Number of the Beast

Fonte: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XI : “—citizens must protect themselves.”, p. 98

““You know, Ellie, you play this game awfully well—for a girl.”
“Thank you too much.”
“No, I mean it. I suppose girls are probably as intelligent as men, but most of them don’t act like it. I think it’s because they don’t have to. If a girl is pretty, she doesn’t have to think.””

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starman Jones

Fonte: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 210)

“Jealousy is a disease; love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); this is another line not in the "Uncut" edition of 1991 based on his original manuscripts, because this was one of the lines that Heinlein added, rather than trimmed down, during the editing process of the first edition.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

“Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched, else they grow troublesome.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Sixth Column

Fonte: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

“Sic transit gloria mundi—Tuesday is usually worse.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starman Jones

Fonte: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 12, “Halcyon” (p. 135)

“See how involved it gets? Clover, bees, nitrogen, escape speed, power, plant-animal balance, gas laws, compound interest laws, meteorology—a mathematical ecologist has to think of everything and think of it ahead of time. Ecology is explosive; what seems like a minor and harmless invasion can change the whole balance.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Farmer in the Sky

Fonte: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 12, “Bees and Zeroes” (p. 125)

“He had let himself be bulldozed by the odds against him. He promised himself never again to pay any attention to the odds, but only to the issues.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Between Planets

Fonte: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 4, “The Glory Road” (p. 45)

“If you’re going to be businessmen, don’t confuse the vocation with larceny.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Rolling Stones

Fonte: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 4, “Aspects of Domestic Engineering” (p. 61)

“He’ll pay no mind to me anyhow,” MacRae answered. “That’s the healthy thing about kids.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Red Planet

Fonte: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 9, “Politics”, p. 133

“Don’t worry about it. There is less here than meets the eye.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Number of the Beast

Fonte: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 497

““Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.” Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. “But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here’s one monkey that’s going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out.””

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Robert A. Heinlein

“Methuselah’s Children” Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 667; closing words
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“I was just trying to show you,” he went on, “just how insubstantial a ‘common sense’ idea can be when you pin it down. Neither ‘common sense’ nor ‘logic’ can prove anything. Proof comes from experiment, or to put it another way, from experience, and from nothing else.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Rocket Ship Galileo

Fonte: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 10, “The Method of Science”, p. 105

“Sex is rearing its interesting head.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Sixth Column

Fonte: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 7 (p. 83)

““He posed me a question which I must answer correctly—else he will not co-operate.”
“Huh? What was the question?
“I’ll ask you. Martha, what is the meaning of life?”
“What! Why, what a stupid question!”
“He did not ask it stupidly.”
“It’s a psychopathic question, unlimited, unanswerable, and, in all probability, sense free.””

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Beyond This Horizon

Fonte: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 2, “Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief—”, p. 35; see also pages 31, 33

“Here is the wisdom of the ages: Men rule but women decide.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Number of the Beast

Fonte: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVII : “There are no tomorrows.”, p. 464

“I venture to predict that, when we get around to reviewing their records, we will find that the rebels were almost all—all, perhaps—men who had never been outstandingly successful at anything. Their only prominence was among themselves.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Beyond This Horizon

Fonte: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 10, “—the only game in town”, p. 104

“Of course the intellectual class did not notice this for many decades, as an intellectual is a highly educated man who can't do arithmetic with his shoes on, and is proud of the lack.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Fonte: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), p. 564

““What is a ‘hunch’?”
“Eh? It’s a belief that something is so, or isn’t so, without evidence.”
“I’d call a hunch the result of automatic reasoning below the conscious level on data you did not know you possessed.””

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Puppet Masters

Fonte: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 28 (p. 149)

“It is the most indecent outfit I’ve ever seen, with no other purpose than to excite lewd, libidinous, lascivious, licentious, lecherous, lustful longings in the loins of Lotharios.”
“Isn’t that the purpose of clothing?”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Number of the Beast

“Well...aside from protection—yes.”
Fonte: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVI : “I’m gifted with second sight.”, p. 456

“A distance “as the crow flies” is significant only to crows.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starman Jones

Fonte: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 111)

“The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, One Meter Wide and Two Meters Long.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Number of the Beast

Fonte: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 508