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Time Enough for Love (1973)
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"Mutation" is never an explanation; it is simply a name for an observed fact.
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Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.
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Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
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If a man pushes a rock, can he ignore an avalanche that follows?
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Sex is a learned art, as much so as ice skating or tight wire walking or fancy diving; it is not instinct. Oh, two animals couple by instinct, but it takes intelligence and patient willingness to turn copulation into a high and lively art.
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Oh, the hell with! — it did not change the statistical outcome.
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No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad universe.
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Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
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It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.
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Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).
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Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
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Most "scientists" are bottle washers and button sorters.
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I don't "believe" in anything. I know certain things — little things, not the Nine Billion Names of God — from experience. But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.
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Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
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He shut up, realizing that grim old Mother Nature, red of tooth and claw, invariably punished damn fools who tried to ignore Her or repeal Her ordinances.
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Son, that phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".
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When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out, that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
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It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.
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Crazy — a nonscientific term meaning that the person to whom one applies that label has a world picture differing from the accepted one.
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Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
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The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.
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God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.
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In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
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Oh, I have strong opinions, but a thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and finding out.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Born:
July 7, 1907
Died:
May 8, 1988
(aged 80)
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