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Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love
Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.

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“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)

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“If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for… but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“Everybody lies about sex.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“A motion to adjourn is always in order.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

So why fret about it?
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)

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“Sense is never common.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”

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“I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

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“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

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“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love: the lives of Lazarus Long; a novel , (1973), p. 366

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“Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing —and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

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“If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)

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“"No man is an island — " Much as we may feel and act as Individuals, our race is —a single organism, always growing and branching —which must be pruned regularly to be healthy.
This necessity need not be argued; anyone with eyes can see that any organism which grows without limit always dies in its own poisons. The only rational question is whether pruning is best done before or after birth.
Being an incurable sentimentalist I favor the former of these methods —killing makes me queasy, even when it's a case of "He's dead and I'm alive and that's the way I wanted it to be."
But this may be a matter of taste. Some shamans think that it is better to be killed in a war, or to die in childbirth, or to starve in misery, than never to have lived at all. They may be right.
But I don't have to like it —and I don't.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)