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• 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. -- Lazarus Long...
• Progress is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• 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...
• 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...
• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
  Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage....
• Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
  -- 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...
• Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity.
  No resemblance ... -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...