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Time Enough for Love • 1973
Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Expert opinion is worth hearing carefully, since it maps the obstacles and explains why they exist. But the speaker treats that knowledge as a starting point rather than a verdict, and urges acting anyway. The advice is playfully defiant: learn every reason something is impossible, then prove otherwise.
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