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• A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes.
• Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.
  -- 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...
• Men are more sentimental then women. It blurs their thinking.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
  -- 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....
• 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...
• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
  -- 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...