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“No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.”

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Robert A. Heinlein's 'Time Enough for Love' is a science fiction novel that delves into complex themes such as the nature of love, the passage of time, and the evolution of humanity. The story follows Lazarus Long, a character who lives for centuries, and his experiences with various forms of love throughout his long life. more

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein was an American science fiction writer, hailed as a master in the field of science fiction. His works have had a profound impact on the development of science fiction literature, with classics such as 'Starship Troopers' and 'The Time Machine'. more

“Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.”

World Should States Amount Incredibles Aids Clothings Thread Needles Defective Needle And Thread

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.”

Use Nations Sky Cold Clothes Skins Ancient Neighbor Weather Witness Endurance Clothings Assault

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.”

Source: Complete Essays

“Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.”

Men Kind Action Natural Animal Companion Clothings Sole Nudity

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

“Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.”

Men Animal Higher Ashamed Clothings Confined Vulgarity Obscenity

Book:Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

“I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.”

Way Feelings Body Easy Accounts Complicated Acquire Clothings

Book:Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

Source: Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

“Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.”

World Way Mind Reason Subjects Pure Standards Clean Naked Acquire Clothings Adam Conventions Modesty Modest Whim Descendants Adam And Eve Diseased Caprice Artificiality

Author:Mark Twain

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