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The only reason I've been hesitating is the price, $1500 for all 46 volumes! It would be the capstone of my book collection, though. I may have to reconsider.
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without spending the enormous amount of time on it that truly intelligent exercise of franchise requires. (Time Enough for Love)
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master." (Time Enough for Love)
Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. (Time Enough for Love)
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)
TANSTAFL!
Considering some of the statements made in favor of BHOcare:
“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.”
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
(The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)
Wasn’t it his idea, in one of his novels, that only veterans be allowed to vote? That’d be a game-changer!!
Be wary of strong drink.
It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.
Both by Lazarus Long.
Outstanding thanks!
Free Men by Robert A. Heinlein (Short Story)
Their sign reads:
FARNHAM’S FREEHOLD
TRADING POST & RESTAURANT BAR
American Vodka
Corn Liquor
Applejack
Pure Spring Water
Grade “A” Milk
Corned Beef & Potatoes
Steak & Fried Potatoes
Butter & some days Bread
Smoked Bear Meat
Jerked Quisling (by the neck)
!!!!Any BOOK Accepted as Cash!!!!
DAY NURSERY
!!FREE KITTENS!!
Blacksmithing, Machine Shop, Sheet Metal Work — You Supply the Metal
FARNHAM SCHOOL OF CONTRACT BRIDGE
Lessons by Arrangement
Social Evening Every Wednesday
WARNING!!!
Ring Bell. Wait. Advance with your Hands Up. Stay on path, avoid mines. We lost three customers last week. We can’t afford to lose you. No sales tax.
Hugh & Barbara Farnham & Family
Freeholders
This needs to get VIRAL. It is absolutely inspiring.
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I am putting the last quote on my FR homepage in my quote section. That is just a perfect quote and true.
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The only reason I've been hesitating is the price, $1500 for all 46 volumes! It would be the capstone of my book collection, though. I may have to reconsider.
I’ve been thinking of recommending Moon is a Harsh Mistress for people to read considering the current shape of things....
What about this one?
“I have no slightest interest in ‘True Prince’ nonsense. Nor do I regard all that wealth as ‘his’; he didn’t produce a shilling of it. Even if he had earned it himself-impossible at his age -’property’ is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.”
“Come again?”
“Ownership, of anything, is an extremely sophisticated abstraction, a mystical relationship, truly. God knows our legal theorists make this mystery complicated enough-but I didn’t begin to see how subtle it was until I got the Martian slant on it. Martians don’t have property. They don’t own anything . . . not even their own bodies.”
- Stranger in a Strange Land