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Sebastian
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I can never forget the first mass attack by Russian infantry which I experienced just after we came into the line during August 1941. I could not believe that in the Second World War the tactics of the First Great War could still be used by
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“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
“Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
― In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
― In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
“I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a 'juvenile delinquent.' But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”
― Starship Troopers
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”
― Starship Troopers
2019 Reading Challenge
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Join us for a year-long trip to complete the 300 book reading challenge for 2019 hosted by yours truly. This lasts from January 1st to December 31st ( ...more
Sebastian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sebastian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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