Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded–here and there, now and then–are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
Of all the strange „crimes“ that human beings have legislated out of nothing, „blasphemy“ is the most amazing – with „obscenity“ and „indecent exposure“ fighting it out for second and third place.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent-it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
Progress doesn’t come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
Citizen of the Galaxy е последната аудио книга, която завърших.
Историята на едно момче и неговите премеждия, като роб, търговец, военен а след това и бизнесмен. Много поучителни моменти за природата на хората. Накара ме отново да се замисля кое определя един човек? Средата? Семейството? Обществото?
Приятна и не много дълга история, която препоръчвам на всички.
Citizen of the Galaxy in Wikipedia
Though this novel was published as part of Heinlein’s juvenile series, it deals with adult material. Its condemnation of slavery is more complex than the argument that slavery is racist oppression. Interestingly, it appears to eschew the easy argument against slavery by race, and moves directly into a far more difficult argument against slavery as a gross and wanton violation of personal rights by both by governmental and economic entities.
Other authors[who?] reviewing the book argue that the argument against slavery is actually a powerful statement about the need for continuing education. As in many of Heinlein’s books, the principal character is portrayed over time, beginning in relative ignorance, learning from experience, receiving the benefits of education, and using that education to resolve subsequent problems in his / her own life and that of those around them.[1]
Finally, Citizen of the Galaxy
makes a compelling statement about the cost of honor, and about loyalty.
Never appeal to a man’s “better nature.” He may not have one. Invoking his “self—interest” gives you more leverage.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
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.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
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