Without debating the usefulness or morality of planned parenthood, it may be verified by observation that any breed which stops its own increase gets crowded out by breeds which expand.
These children were often caught; police arrested batches each day. Were they scolded? Yes, often scathingly. Were their noses rubbed in it? Rarely. News organs and officials usually kept their names secret – in many places the law so required for criminals under eighteen. Were they spanked? Indeed not! Many had never been spanked even as small children; there was a widespread belief that spanking, or any punishment involving pain, did a child permanent psychic damage.
She doesn’t know geometry. Just enough to pilot a ship in and out of the folds.” “Only that much?” I should have stuck to advanced finger-painting and never let Dad lure me into trying for an education. There isn’t any end – the more you learn, the more you need to learn.
You see, they assumed that Man has a moral instinct.” “Sir? I thought – But he does! I have.” “No, my dear, you have a cultivated conscience, a most carefully trained one. Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not – and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.
The result is of unique historical importance despite the Archivist’s decision to leave in blatant falsehoods, self-serving allegations, and many amoral anecdotes not suitable for young persons.
Baggage included a tossed salad of books as well as hundreds of the more usual film spools. The entire family, save the twins, tended to be old-fashioned about books; they liked books with covers, volumes one could hold in the lap. Film spools were not quite the same.
Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.
Manuel, on some subjects I don’t trust even myself. Limiting the freedom of news ‘just a little bit’ is in the same category with the classic example ‘a little bit pregnant.’ We are not yet free nor will we be as long as anyone – even our ally Mike – controls our news. Someday I hope to own a newspaper independent of any source or channel. I would happily set print by hand, like Benjamin Franklin.
For some tense moments it seemed that we were going to be hanged or shot or at least locked up forever in their deepest dungeon for the crime of not being Californians.
Lazarus sighed again. “Ira, do you know the ancient Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’?” I admitted that I did not. “Don’t bother to guess. It’s ‘Two Women Under One Roof.
It was widely known though rarely mentioned that an eager young bride could accomplish in seven months or less what takes nine for cow or countess.
Do You Have a PROBLEM? Nothing is illegal – it isn’t what you do; it’s the way that you do it.
Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth – but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three.
Where you go, I go. Today and to the end of our lives. Unless you tell me to get out, that you don’t want me anymore. I have spoken.” “You certainly have, dear. Hilda?
That was Heinlein in a nutshell: the responsible human being, the competent human being, the human being who knows how to die gallantly when faced with the Birkenhead drill. Not because it’s heroic, but because.
Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
All ‘nows’ are equal; that is the basic theorem of time travel. They don’t disappear; both ‘past’ and ‘future’ are mathematical abstractions; the ‘now’ is always all there is.
Any human organization can be rendered useless, impotent, a danger to itself, by selectively removing its best minds while carefully leaving the stupid ones in place.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it’s partly her fault.