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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.”

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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

“What we think of as ‘Physical beauty’ is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness—intelligence—among them.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro I Will Fear No Evil

Fonte: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 2, p. 35

“This is the great day. This is the greatest event in all the history of the human race, up to this time. That is — today is New Year's Day of the Year One. If we don't change the calendar, historians will do so. The human race — this is our change, our puberty rite, bar mitzvah, confirmation, from the change of our infancy into adulthood for the human race. And we're going to go on out, not only to the Moon, to the stars; we're going to spread. I don't know that the United States is going to do it; I hope so. I have — I'm an American myself; I want it to be done by us. But in any case, the human race is going to do it, it's utterly inevitable: we're going to spread through the entire universe.”

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In a live interview with Walter Cronkite of CBS News, on the day of the first moonwalk (20 July 1969)
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, Volume I (1907–1949): Learning Curve (2010)

“Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Space Cadet

Fonte: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 15 “Pie With a Fork”, p. 180

“Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.”

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The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)

“Gravity’s books have got to balance.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Farmer in the Sky

Fonte: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 17, “Disaster” (p. 177)

“Sometimes I think,” he told Tex, “that Th’Wing thinks that I am an idiot studying hard to become a moron—but flunking the course.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Space Cadet

Fonte: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 16 “P.R.S. Astarte”, p. 195

“I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.”

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Fonte: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 10

“Don’t pay any attention to what she says. Half of it’s always wrong and she doesn’t mean the rest.”

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The Menace from Earth (p. 351)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Babies are fun. And they’re not much trouble. Feed ‘em occasionally, help them when they need it, and love them a lot. That’s all there is to it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Beyond This Horizon

Fonte: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 7, “Burn him down at once—”, p. 75

“Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.”

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Fonte: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 2

“I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro I Will Fear No Evil

Fonte: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 27, p. 473

“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”

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Fonte: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5

“Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.”

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Waldo & Magic, Inc. (1950)

“Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it causes him to wonder if women are necessary. If you always get his breakfast and don’t raise controversial issues until after his second cup of coffee, you can get away with murder the rest of the time. They don’t notice other odors when they smell bacon.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Number of the Beast

Fonte: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter V : “—a wedding ring is not a ring in my nose—”, p. 41

“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Fonte: Time Enough for Love: the lives of Lazarus Long; a novel , (1973), p. 366

“By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget—especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself—that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.”

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Fonte: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 8

“He considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Between Planets

Fonte: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 4, “The Glory Road” (p. 43)

“The Almighty-God idea came under attack because it explained nothing; it simply pushed all explanations one stage farther away. In the nineteenth century atheistic positivism started displacing the Almighty-God notion in that minority of the population that bathed regularly. Atheism had a limited run, as it, too, explains nothing, being merely Godism turned upside down.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

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

“Never listen to newscasts. Saves wear and tear on the nervous system.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Red Planet

Fonte: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 2, “South Colony, Mars”, p. 17

“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starman Jones

Fonte: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)

“Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Starman Jones

Fonte: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 115)

“Mercifully, we stay our hand. Earth’s cities will not be bombed. The free citizens of Venus Republic have no wish to slaughter their cousins still on Terra. Our only purpose is to establish our own independence, to manage our own affairs, to throw off the crushing yoke of absentee ownership and taxation without representation which has bleed us poor.
In doing so, in so taking our stand as free men, we call on all oppressed and impoverished nations everywhere to follow our lead, accept our help. Look up into the sky! Swimming there above you is the very station from which I now address you. The fat and stupid rulers of the Federation have made of Circum-Terra an overseer’s whip. The threat of this military base in the sky has protected their empire from the just wrath of their victims for more then five score years.
We now crush it.
In a matter of minutes this scandal in the clean skies, this pistol pointed at the heads of men everywhere on your planet, will cease to exist. Step out of doors, watch the sky. Watch a new sun blaze briefly, and know that its light is the light of Liberty inviting all of Earth to free itself.
Subject peoples of Earth, we free men of the free Republic of Venus salute you with that sign!”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Between Planets

Fonte: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 6, “The Sign in the Sky” (p. 74) - Speech given before the destruction of the nuclear-armed satellite Circum-Terra.

“Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro Double Star

Double Star (1956)

“I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Number of the Beast

Fonte: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 82

“One can’t expect logic from males; they think with their testicles and act from their emotions.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Number of the Beast

Fonte: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXIX : Random Numbers, p. 385

“He decided to stay in his space suit; explosive decompression didn’t appeal to him. Come to think about it, death from old age was his choice.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Long Watch

The Long Watch (p. 214)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“In the army it takes an eight-man working party to help a brass hat blow his nose.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Puppet Masters

Fonte: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 153)

“You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me — Jane — here alone in the dark.
I miss you dreadfully!”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro "—All You Zombies—"

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

“The matter was still "Top Secret" and the subject of cabinet debates at the time of the Scranton Riot. Don't ask me why it was top secret, or even restricted; our government has gotten the habit of classifying anything as secret which the all-wise statesmen and bureaucrats decide we are not big enough boys and girls to know, a Mother-Knows-Best-Dear policy. I've read that there used to be a time when a taxpayer could demand the facts on anything and get them. I don't know; it sounds Utopian.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livro The Puppet Masters

Fonte: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 24 (p. 127)