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#1

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

tags: essential, happiness, love

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#2

“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

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#3

“No one's ever really gone.”
― Luke Skywalker

tags: the-last-jedi

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#4

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

tags: aim-high, humor

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#5

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

tags: inspirational, motto

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#6

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

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#7

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

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#8

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

tags: cats, humor, women

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#9

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

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#10

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

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#11

“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

tags: freedom, law, morality, rules

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#12

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

tags: challenges, children, luxury

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#13

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

tags: cat, cats, stubborn, stubborness

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#14

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

tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl

558 likes

#15

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

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#16

“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

tags: wisdom

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#17

“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

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#18

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

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#19

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

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#20

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

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#21

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

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#22

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

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#23

“...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

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#24

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

tags: a-memory-of-light, brandon-sanderson, loial, robert-jordan, wheel-of-time, wot

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#25

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

tags: religion

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#26

“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

tags: humor, idiot

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#27

“God is in the rain.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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#28

“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

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#29

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

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#30

“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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