Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did not understand a thing: No! And Jubal readily admitted to himself that a long lifetime had left him completely and totally not understanding the basic problems of the Universe."

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either-...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn’t sure that he did, eithe...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

We had a discussion with Rogers and his understanding of what the crew told him was that the trees w...
DEBORA LIVENGOOD

The one thing that's absolutely clear is that Karl was not the source for the leak and there's no ba...
ROBERT LUSKIN

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not unde...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its exis...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

I traded being heartbroken over one guys for being completely heartbroken over another. And I didn't...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment;...
SIGMUND FREUD

The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl w...
CHARLES DICKENS

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

The important thing to understand is there are certain things you can do. They may or may not help y...
JACKIE PERLMAN

That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of...
ARA PARSEGHIAN

The Republican race is totally and completely wide open. It's hard to identify another year when the...
WHIT AYRES

The story - from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace - is one of the basic tools invented by the human ...
URSULA K. LEGUIN

If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI

He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can’t go wrong, beca...
CHARLES R. CROSS

The university provided one last opportunity for Vick to become a citizen of the university and re-a...
CHARLES STEGER

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack...
HOWARD PYLE

True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separ...
JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN

He is a very responsible tenant, and I have not had any problems with him or his family. I have no c...
BETTY JEAN VIERA

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, o...
DAVID HUME

There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES

If there was one thing he knew about himself, it was that he could take any good thing and make a me...
CASSANDRA CLARE HOLLY BLACK

It's clear that there were some serious attempts by others to get this addressed months ago, and the...
FELICIA CANFIELD

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it w...
JENNY LAWSON

We spent a lot of time on communicating with one another, getting a feel for one another, and unders...
JEFF PENTLAND

One had to speak of sex; one had to speak publicly and in a manner that was not determined by the di...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

The wisdom of the Greeks, when compared to that of the Jews, is absolutely bestial; for apart from G...
MARTIN LUTHER

Trying to interview him before a game is completely and totally worthless. He gives you these kind o...
BUZZ BISSINGER

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 's...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biol...
FRANS DE WAAL

Least hypothesis” held no place of preference; Occam’s razor could not slice the prime problem, ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever ...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Do we have problems? Of course we have problems. There's no one that can do an average 12 surgeries ...
DAVID HERNANDEZ

[Morgan said he feels Buckley should not have received another hearing on his sentencing because the...
HENRY MORGAN

When you ran off precipitately and did not wait for any one, and the Apostle was calling you from yo...
QURAN

I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminal...
OTTO WEININGER

In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't ...
IAIN BANKS

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER

The important thing was to not let him feel comfortable in the pocket. He's a rhythm quarterback and...
BRYCE FISHER

We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL

There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it...
C.J. CHERRYH

One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS...

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came ...
MARTIN NIEMOELLER

Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The thing we have to understand is that Alex was in the homeland, playing for a professional team ov...
GEORGE MCPHEE

We're not going to sit there and brood over it by any means. We made a substantial offer and did tie...
LOU LAMORIELLO

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left ...
JASON MRAZ

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humble...
HEIDI BAKER

no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. ...
R.J. PALACIO

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did not understand a thing: No! And Jubal readily admitted to himself that a long lifetime had left him completely and totally not understanding the basic problems of the Universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

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