There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.
The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love. - Robert A. Heinlein
The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
- Robert A. Heinlein
It's better to copulate than not. - Robert A. Heinlein
It's better to copulate than not.
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature. - Robert A. Heinlein
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes … - Robert A. Heinlein
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes …
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human … - Robert A. Heinlein
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human …
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 r… - Robert A. Heinlein
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 r…
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… - Robert A. Heinlein
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…
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever. - Robert A. Heinlein
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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