The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
Robert A. HeinleinRead
If possible, _x000D_ leave room for your enemy _x000D_ to become your friend.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that maintaining a sense of openness and forgiveness can transform adversaries into allies.
Robert A. Heinlein's quote emphasizes the idea that by allowing space for reconciliation and understanding, it is possible for those who oppose us to become friends. This perspective advocates for compassion over conflict, encouraging individuals to look beyond hostility and recognize the potential for collaboration and harmony.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming differences in the workplace.
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
An armed society is a polite society.
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
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.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
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.
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.
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