One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Robert Heinlein
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null wor...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB Never rub another mans rhubarb
JACK NICHOLSON A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
TOM KRISTENSEN Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. CLEMENT STONE A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT Hope is the poore mans bread.
GEORGE HERBERT Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You will never know of another mans heart ache by words alone
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT Happiness is psychological. It's a mans greed that makes it physical.
BRANDON JAMES I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
GEORGE HERBERT An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE It's a mans world influenced by women.
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR I've been to 20 Burning Mans, and I've never seen a better one. The group that came this year was a ...
LARRY HARVEY What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
UNKNOWN 'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.
JENSON BUTTON To forget is Gods gift to man,to forgive is mans gift to God.
KOWSALAPATHY The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
GEORGE HERBERT Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
GEORGE HERBERT A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
GEORGE HERBERT A mans true experience offers a great deal of observing what is found to be of value
BOAZ AKUDE A rich mans dream comes true only through a poor man.
KOWSALAPATHY If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
JON KRAKAUER remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.
NEGRO FRIJOLES The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
WILLIAM MOYERS For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.
BRADLEY B. DALINA A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I was Raised Round Junkies,Drunkies and real sluts Holding a poor mans rifle when there is beef not ...
NOBLE DA GENIUS Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
MARGOT FONTEYN Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
MARGOT FONTEYN A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...
GEORGES CLéMENCEAU No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
OSCAR WILDE If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I r...
JACKY ICKX Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
BERNARD CORNWELL No man, woman or country is above God~ To question God's wisdom in giving the individual free will, ...
BJ MORIN Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.''-Sirius black...
J.K. ROWLING While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of m...
MAYA ANGELOU It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ To remove mans comforts he has grown so accustomed to is the true test of his reinvention, whatever ...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL ... the logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle stat...
THOMAS LIGOTTI Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team mem...
TOM KRISTENSEN I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning...
RICHARD DAWKINS Le Mans runs on a longer track with 48 cars. At Daytona, with more cars and shorter run, drivers are...
TOMMY ARCHER Soldiers are the truly responsables for war,if they dont fight,its not gonna be the mans with a suit...
RAJA Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and th...
JOHN DONNE My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to...
CARROLL SHELBY It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
ROALD DAHL Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA It's mans duty to exhibit all the love he can possibly exhibit & exhaust on this plane,because after...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it ...
BOB BECKEL Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Looper is another great film.
DEYTH BANGER My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along t...
MARIO ANDRETTI the one thing about fashion is everyone wants that one moment when they look fabuloous and they feel...
VERONICA WEBB Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle;
only something that's still beyond log...
TOBA BETA Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS The hard part is putting one word after another.
JO LINSDELL We cannot meet it the threat of dictatorship if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of...
VANNEVAR BUSH Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in th...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
MOHAMMED REZA PAHLAVI I dont know who it is to blame. Men for treating women like nothing till they were the most revealin...
ANUJ SOMANY I dont know who it is to blame. Men for treating women like nothing till they were the most revealin...
AL STADLER M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them...
NEIL GAIMAN Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's s...
TOM KRISTENSEN To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent
"Love the ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone shoudl be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to b...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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