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"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss."
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Time Enough for Love"I learned centuries back that there is no privacy in any society crowded enough to need IDs. A law guaranteeing privacy simply insures that bugs — microphones and lenses and so forth — are that much harder to spot."
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The book made the shortlist for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards for best science fiction novel of that year, although it did not win. It did win a retrospective Libertarian Futurist Society award: the Prometheus Hall of Fame award for 1988.
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss."
"Oh, I have strong opinions, but a thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and finding out. Galileo proved that and it may be the only certainty we have."
"Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."
"There’s no virtue in being old, it just takes a long time."
"“Common sense?” “Son, that phrase is self-contradictory. ‘Sense’ is never ‘common.’”"
"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship."