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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

“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

Fonte: Stranger in a Strange Land

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starship Troopers

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“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

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“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Fonte: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die… and accepts his sentence undismayed.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Fonte: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey…”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Glory Road

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“His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.”

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“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

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“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Fonte: Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday

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“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starship Troopers

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“He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

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“Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Star Beast

Fonte: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 14, “Destiny? Fiddlesticks!” (p. 219)

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Friday

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“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”

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“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Fonte: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

“We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.”

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“The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Expanded Universe

Fonte: "The Happy Days Ahead" in Expanded Universe (1980)
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Span of time is important; the 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Farnham's Freehold

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“Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starship Troopers

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“In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Fonte: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Stranger in a Strange Land

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“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starship Troopers

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“Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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“Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Man Who Sold the Moon

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