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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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Robert A. Heinlein Frases famosas

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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.”

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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

“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Glory Road

Glory Road (1963)
Contexto: Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

Fonte: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.”

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“Listen, son—most women are damn fools and children. But they’ve got more range than we’ve got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better—and the vile ones are viler.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Puppet Masters

Fonte: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 11 (p. 65)

“There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

So why fret about it?
Fonte: Time Enough for Love (1973)

“Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Fonte: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

Fonte: Stranger in a Strange Land

“I grok in fullness.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

Fonte: 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 livro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Fonte: 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 livro Starship Troopers

Fonte: 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 livro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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“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 livro Stranger in a Strange Land

Fonte: 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 livro Starship Troopers

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“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 livro Stranger in a Strange Land

Fonte: 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 livro Friday

Fonte: Friday

“Everybody lies about sex.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Fonte: 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 livro Stranger in a Strange Land

Fonte: 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 livro The Number of the Beast

Fonte: 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 livro Double Star

Fonte: 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 livro Starship Troopers

Fonte: 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 livro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Fonte: 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 livro Between Planets

Fonte: 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 livro The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Fonte: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls