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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.

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

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

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

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

    Men   Views   Land  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • 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

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

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

    "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.
  • 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 talks Ender's game in rare interview". Interview with Shane Snow, www.wired.com. October 31, 2013.
  • 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.

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

    Thinking   Land   Trying  
    "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.
  • 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 (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.65, Hachette UK
  • There is no safety this side of the grave

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

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

    Family   Wife   Coveting  
  • Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

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

    Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)
  • Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

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

    Source: www.hitfix.com
  • 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.

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

    Dream   Home   Land  
    Quoted in Sarah Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1969)
  • 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

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

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

    Thinking   Humanity   Doe  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.88, Penguin
  • I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

    Lying   Way   Shut Up  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.355, Penguin
  • Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

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

    Children   Land   Strange  
    Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press
  • Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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

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

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