Robert A. Heinlein

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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  • bblbrxhas quoted6 years ago
    You listening, Bog? Is a computer one of Your creatures?
  • bblbrxhas quoted6 years ago
    We hit them so hard you could see it, by bare eyeball hookup; didn't need binox. Chin dropped and I said, "Bojemoi!" softly and reverently.
  • bblbrxhas quoted6 years ago
    We shall fight them."
    "DA!"
    "We shall fight them on the surface, we shall fight them in the tubes, we shall fight them in the corridors! If die we must, we shall die free!"
    "Yes! Ja-da! Tell 'em, tell 'em!"
    "And if we die, let history write: This was Luna's finest hour! Give us liberty... or give us death!"
  • bblbrxhas quoted6 years ago
    Women are amazing creatures--sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
  • bblbrxhas quoted6 years ago
    As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
  • bblbrxhas quoted6 years ago
    "Soul?" Does a dog have a soul? How about cockroach?
  • Evgeny Shvarovhas quoted8 years ago
    so let's find out what they did before we judge what they've done.
  • Evgeny Shvarovhas quoted8 years ago
    Line marriage is the strongest possible device for conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children--the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere--in an enviroment in which there is no security, neither for capital nor for children, other than that devised by individuals. Somehow human beings always cope with their environments. Line marriage is a remarkably successful invention to that end. All other Lunar forms of marriage serve that same purpose, though not as well."
  • Evgeny Shvarovhas quoted8 years ago
    Manuel, once there was a man who held a political make-work job like so many here in this Directorate, shining brass cannon around a courthouse."
    "Why would courthouse have cannon?"
    "Never mind. He did this for years. It fed him and let him save a bit, but he was not getting ahead in the world. So one day he quit his job, drew out his savings, bought a brass cannon--and went into business for himself."
  • Evgeny Shvarovhas quoted9 years ago
    Fedoseev, Choy Lin and Choy Mu
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