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  • #1
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #2
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #3
    “No one's ever really gone.”
    Luke Skywalker

  • #4
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles in Love

  • #5
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #6
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #7
    David  Weber
    “There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too.”
    David Weber, March Upcountry

  • #8
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #9
    David  Weber
    “Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts,”
    David Weber, Echoes of Honor

  • #10
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #11
    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 I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #12
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #13
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #14
    “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
    Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order

  • #15
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #16
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #17
    David  Weber
    “There are two sides to every dialogue, but if you accept the other side's terms without demanding equal time for your own, then they control the debate and its outcome.”
    David Weber, The Honor of the Queen

  • #18
    Alfred Tennyson
    “My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #19
    Frank Herbert
    “Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?”
    Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

  • #20
    Frank Herbert
    “To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.”
    Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

  • #21
    John Ringo
    “Heroes happen because somebody made a mistake.”
    John Ringo, A Hymn Before Battle

  • #22
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever?”
    Robert A. Heinlein / Alan Dean Foster, Starship Troopers

  • #23
    Ann Aguirre
    “...I touch Vel’s arm to stay him. He sits down on the bed beside me, head cocked in inquiry. Thank you, I write. Vel rises and performs a lovely wa. White wave will never forsake brown bird.”
    Ann Aguirre, Killbox

  • #24
    Robert Jordan
    “Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.”
    Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

  • #25
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #26
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?"

    "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice

  • #27
    “God is in the rain.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #28
    N.K. Jemisin
    “I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
    tags: love

  • #29
    Ben Bova
    “You can't hate a man you understand.”
    Ben Bova, Return to Mars

  • #30
    Randall Munroe
    “I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.”
    Randall Munroe



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