Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes - Page 2

• Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Children, Land, Strange

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Doe, Want, Cases

  "Stranger in a Strange Land". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, June 1, 1961.

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• Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Leader, Democracy, Faults

  "Stranger in a Strange Land". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 232, 1991.

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• I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Way, Shut Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.355, Penguin

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• If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the more I can surround myself with woman and combine it with my soul's point of view, the more I become a stranger in a strange land.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Men, Views, Land

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Eight, Race, Government

  "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 232), 1991.

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• When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.

  Anthony Heald

  Country, Couple, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Choices, Challenges

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed.

  Richard Halliburton

  Motivational, Powerful, Land

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• 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, and my home after all
  was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in
  de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.

  Harriet Tubman

  Dream, Home, Land

  Quoted in Sarah Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1969)

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• My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Humanity, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.88, Penguin

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• I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

  Martha Raddatz

  Thinking, Land, Trying

  "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.

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• I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Religion, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.121, Penguin

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• In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Science, Technology

  "Orson Scott Card talks Ender's game in rare interview". Interview with Shane Snow, www.wired.com. October 31, 2013.

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• As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

  Mary Church Terrell

  Night, Land, Might

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Long, Wish

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.29, Penguin

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• 'Lost in Translation' movie says something interesting about the alienation of being a stranger in a strange land, but also of being a celebrity. That kind of feeling of not being in the same strata as everyone else.

  Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  Interesting, Feelings, Strange

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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