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• What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! -- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlei
• 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....
• Which came first, the future or the past?
• What are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the facts?
  Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell,' avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable 'verdict of history,' --what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?...
• There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of yea
  he government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest....
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -- Thomas Jefferso
• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlei
• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasio
  butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly....
• Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.
  At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house....