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• Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
  -- Jubal in _Stranger in a Strange Land_ by Robert A Heinlei...
• Love your country, but never trust its government. -- Robert A. Heinlein.
• Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others.
  They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way....
• 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....
• First you must learn to control your /self/. The rest follows.
  Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes....
• To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness.
  I did so at the age of four-and-a-half. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company....
• 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...
• One man's "magic" is another man's "engineering." "Supernatural" is a null word.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...