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• Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime.
  For a first offense, that is. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic
  his doubles your effective lifetime -- and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows....
• 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....
• Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry (NB
  Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!...
• Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
  Moderation is for monks. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind
  it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly....