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One is certainly not encouraged to make scientific advances, when it is a handicap rather than an aid to advancement. I can get a damn fine job here and am tempted to take it. It would be ideal except for the Porto Ricans [sic]. They are beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere.
Published copies of this story are very difficult to find, and along with "Beyond Doubt" and "Pied Piper", "My Object All Sublime" comprises "The Lost Three" stories written by Heinlein. [2] The three were included in the 2005 posthumous Heinlein collection Off the Main Sequence .
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people." [1] Desperately wishing to avoid a civil war, Lincoln ended with this plea: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends.
George Walker Bush became the first president of the new millennium with a shorter transition time than most presidents enjoy. Bush and outgoing Vice President Al Gore's election had become a ...
The Library. The Third Librarian was neatly dressed in a black velvet doublet and fine hose, as befitted his rank.He introduced himself as Virgil, "like the Roman poet".He chose not to wear the rapier of his office, but wore a paper-knife in a narrow holster on his belt, to slit the pages of uncut books at need.
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"Free Thought and Official Propaganda" is a speech (and subsequent publication) delivered in 1922 by Bertrand Russell on the importance of unrestricted freedom of expression in society, and the problem of the state and political class interfering in this through control of education, fines, economic leverage, and distortion of evidence.
Beyond Doubt is a science fiction story written by Robert A. Heinlein, originally printed in Astonishing Stories in April 1941 under the pen name "Lyle Monroe and Elma Wentz". It was published again in 1984 as by Heinlein in Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories on the Politics of the Future (edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg ...