Robert A. Heinlein vs. David Cay Johnston
Read 20 entries attributed to Robert A. Heinlein alongside 20 attributed to David Cay Johnston. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Robert A. Heinlein alongside 20 attributed to David Cay Johnston. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: philosophy, knowledge, books, time, justice, truth. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #1008: "Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, t…"
Attributed to David Cay Johnston, entry #148289: "Just as there is an underground economy of gardeners and handymen and petty merchants who get paid in cash and pay little or no taxes, there is also an underground economy among t…"
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Robert A. Heinlein
1907 – 1988
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. His published works, both fiction and non-fiction, express admiration for competence and emphasize the value of critical thinking.
"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the…"
#love"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
#happiness"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."
#life"Luck is a bonus that follows careful planning—it’s never free."
#freedom"When you haven’t data, guessing is illogical."
#philosophy"When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why."
#knowledge"As for population, every major shortcoming of our native planet could be traced to one cause: too many people, not enough planet."
#Human Nature"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
#power"Don, have you been dealing with a booklegger?"
#books"Apparently she believes she is safe. Evil is essentially stupid, Joe; despite her brilliance, she believes what she wishes to believe. Or it may be that she …"
#death"Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers."
#knowledge"As Thorby learned to use his mind, he found that he liked to; he developed an insatiable appetite for the printed page."
#knowledge"Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice."
#wisdom"I told him it was wrong, I said that he mustn’t take the law in his own hands. “What law?” he said. “There isn’t any law here. And you aren’t being logical, …"
#philosophy"The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, a…"
#time"Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers."
#justice"He was still having trouble readjusting. Wars were something you studied, not something that actually happened."
#life"“The trouble with you youngsters,” Joe said, “is that if you can’t understand a thing right off, you think it can’t be true. The trouble with your elders is,…"
#mind"I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level…"
#truth"Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand."
#humorDavid Cay Johnston
1948
David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
"Just as there is an underground economy of gardeners and handymen and petty merchants who get paid in cash and pay little or no taxes, there is also an under…"
#truth"government that can't tax ...is no government at all."
#politics"Since the corporate income tax began in 1909, Congress has imposed a penalty tax, currently 15 percent, on excess cash and near-cash... Without such, a corpo…"
#justice"f we're going to fix this, and if we're going to get this manifestly unqualified criminal out of the White House, we have to do some work. We've got to diagn…"
#work"All of the Founders of this country... were well steeped in the history of the ancient world. ...hey were very concerned about the rabble... about people bei…"
#history"Everything has rules... The rules that we set really determines who benefits and who bears the burden. ...e have all of these policies ...that largely determ…"
#knowledge"Wyoming Corporate Services... for a fee, will create a company, set up a bank account, appoint officers and directors... provide a lawyer as a corporate dire…"
#philosophy"That's what I'm worried about... the tyrant next time."
#time"he Trump presidency is unlike anything that came before, a presidency built on open public contempt for Constitutional principles."
#ethics"Our democracy is in very deep trouble. ...Donald Trump is not the disease. He is the symptom."
#politics"As taxpayers we gave one of Warren Buffet's companies, in 2006, an interest-free loan of $665 million dollars, and he only has to pay half of it back 28 year…"
#justice"This book tells you what has either not been in the news or been in it glancingly, about what they're doing to our government; and that effects your safety, …"
#politics"Journalism never did a great job of covering government, but 40% of journalism jobs in this country have disappeared since 2000. ...s a result of that the ag…"
#books"We have a president of the United States who is not a loyal citizen. ...ook at the email that... sent to Donald Trump Jr. ...ou want to read it carefully bec…"
#art"The impulse to increase profits can blind men to risk, especially when those at risk are strangers. Society imposes rules on corporate behavior to protect pu…"
#society"If you have heard about companies using a Bermuda mailbox to escape American taxes or that the IRS audits the poor more than the rich or that Enron paid no t…"
#money"People have to get registered to vote. People have to be driven to the polls on election day... Go to a district where there might be change. Arrange in adva…"
#politics"Over many years in paid public appearances and in books bearing his name... Trump rejected the idea of turning the other cheek, saying that those who do are …"
#time"Our system for identifying and promoting military officers for leadership actually works. In my biography of Donald Trump I cite the Army Field Manual 6, whi…"
#leadership"f Reaganism worked, if Bush's tax cuts worked, America today would be swimming in jobs. That's what we were promised. It would lead to all this investment an…"
#time