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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...
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
  Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage....
• Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A.
  Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.
  '" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are _not_ part of "Nature"-- but beavers and their dams _are_....
• Read it? Good God, no! It's bad enough to write such a thing.
  -- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlei...
• Nimoy: And so, from this simple man came the proof that we are not alone in the universe.
  I'm Leonard Nimoy. Good night. Teenager: [off-camera] Uh, Mr....
• I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him
  I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God....
• Rights" is a fictional abstraction. No one has "Rights", neither machines nor flesh-and-blood.
  Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they use or do not use....