Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes

• I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

  Harriet Tubman

  Freedom, Land, Slavery

  "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hurt, Pain, Funny Things

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• I´m a stranger in a strange land.

  Carson McCullers

  Land, Strange, Stranger

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Laziness, Strange

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin

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• Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

  Richard Bach

  Marriage, Land, Two

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• We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Sweet, Home

  "The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1993.

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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• There is no safety this side of the grave

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Safety, Sides, Graves

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.228, Penguin

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• I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Hurt, Laughing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.295, Penguin

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• But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Land, Care

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.437, Delphi Classics

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• Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Order, Growth, Action

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.71, Penguin

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• Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Time, Valentine, Martians

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.11, Penguin

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• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Police, Christ, Permit

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.346, Penguin

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• Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Evil, Goodness

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• To be a stranger in a strange land:
  Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
  There where my brother far away is ascending,
  The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

  Wang Wei

  Travel, Brother, Men

  "Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon". "The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry", book edited by Robert Payne, 2014.

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• A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Artist, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.303, Penguin

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• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Land, People

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• ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Valentine, Race

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• Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  Otto Rank

  Family, Wife, Coveting

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• Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Blind, Instinct, Prime

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• You are a stranger in a strange land. As an evolved person living in a relatively unevolved world, you are constantly subjected to a bombardment of seemingly endless negative vibrations emanating from those around you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Land, Negative, World

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Evil, Cold

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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