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"I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me."
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson |
Selected Quotes of Robert A. Heinlein
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat." "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity." "'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy." "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." "One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." "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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| "It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
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| "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| "Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned."
Charlotte Bronte |
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Selected Quotes of Roger Zelazny
“It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.” “I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.” “While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.” “Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to” "Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom." |
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| "Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
George Bernard Shaw |
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| "Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you," to dessert that night. And for what!"
Erma Bombeck |
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