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    Tamora Pierce
    “When in doubt, shoot the wizard.”
    ― Tamora Pierce
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88107 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “You try to give away what you want yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
    tags: inspirational
    34 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Komarr
    tags: dreams
    121 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game
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  • #8
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Money, power, sex ... and elephants.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
    tags: consequences
    257 likes

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    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
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    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
    tags: freedom, law, morality, rules
    2217 likes

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  • #12
    “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

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    ― robert heinlein
    tags: writing
    379 likes

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  • #14
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!”
    ― Robert Heinlein
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: peace
    210 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
    ― Robert Heinlein
    tags: wisdom
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Live and learn, or you don't live long.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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  • #21
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Does history record any case in which the majority was right?”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: democracy, free-thinking, public-opinion
    122 likes

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  • #23
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: choice, freedom, peace, war
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  • #24
    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
    ― Robert J. Hanlon
    tags: evil, malice, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, misattributed-to-einstein, stupidity
    347 likes

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  • #25
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: afterlife, faith, spiritual
    72 likes

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  • #26
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “He's an honest politician--he stays bought.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: politicians
    99 likes

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  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “الطيبة وحدها لا تكفي. لا بد من حكمة باردة قاسية للطيبة كي تحقق الخير. الطيبة بلا حكمة تؤدي حتما إلى الشر.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: الحكمة, الطيبة
    29 likes

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    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
    tags: wisdom
    318 likes

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  • #29
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: self-esteem
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold
    tags: defiance, hopelessness, lost-causes
    127 likes



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