Themes
You live and learn. Or you don’t live long.
— Robert Heinlein · Time Enough for Love

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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The familiar phrase about learning through life is given a sharper alternative. Failing to learn is presented as a threat to continuing at all. The brevity makes adaptation feel urgent: experience matters because paying attention to it may be part of staying alive.
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