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• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A.
  Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A.
  Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" -- find out how he feels about astrology.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry (NB
  Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!...
• Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.
  Then do it. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• When the need arises -- and it does -- you must be able to shoot your own dog.
  Don't farm it out -- that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse....