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• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
  -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942...
• TANSTAAFL /tan'stah-fl/ [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
  ] "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups....
• TANSTAAFL: /tan'stah-fl/ [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
  ] "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly {heavyweight} technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the {signal-to-noise ratio} of unmoderated USENET newsgroups....
• Bender: "Argh. The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
• If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. -- Robert Fro
• MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
  An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society....
• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted.
  In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder....
• There will always be survivors. -- Robert A. Heinlei
• Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life!
  and solder of society! -- Robert Blair (1699-1747) -- The Grave, Part i, Line 88...