But I’ll say this! No one has a right to live! The only right we have is to die. That’s it! If you get plucked out of the universe and given a chance to become a life, that’s more than not having become anything at all, and for that, Mr.
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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“Secrecy begets tyranny.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“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.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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