L. Neil Smith
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ALEXA RAY JOEL FABRIZIO MOREIRA It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or... FRED WILSON DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER This election, without us being allowed to participate as a presidential candidate, will have no leg... DUMARSAIS SIMEUS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn&... LAJOS EGRI The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD CRAIG GROESCHEL YVES BEHAR GARY JOHNSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON MICHELLE OBAMA ALICE COOPER BOBBY ORR WILLIAM WELD ALFRED KORZYBSKI RALPH NADER MARTIN MCGUINNESS EARL WILSON First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't an... CHARLES S. DUTTON Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy p... DANIEL GILLIES FLEA DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Sen. McCain isn't someone who strikes you as a particularly dynamic speaker. He doesn't seem... MIKE GALLAGHER It's not ethical for the president to manage the state's resources at the same time he is a candidat... CARLOS RODRIGUEZ JACK KINGSTON A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't... BRUCE NASH KIM CATTRALL GENE GREEN MARGARET DELAND NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE Dog parks can be a fantastic way to socialize your dog, but it's important for owners to underst... CESAR MILLAN It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state. LAURA MOSER
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I'm tired of living in a police state. L. NEIL SMITH City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. L. NEIL SMITH I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, a... L. NEIL SMITH I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right. L. NEIL SMITH It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too,... L. NEIL SMITH Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. L. NEIL SMITH Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intellige... L. NEIL SMITH Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple tho... L. NEIL SMITH Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead. L. NEIL SMITH Government is waging war against the people. L. NEIL SMITH The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate ou... L. NEIL SMITH We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescript... L. NEIL SMITH Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave. L. NEIL SMITH Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. L. NEIL SMITH I'm tired of being considered property. L. NEIL SMITH What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in... L. NEIL SMITH The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that... L. NEIL SMITH We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA... L. NEIL SMITH The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe ev... L. NEIL SMITH I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason t... L. NEIL SMITH As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. L. NEIL SMITH It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profit... L. NEIL SMITH This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaur... L. NEIL SMITH People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed off... L. NEIL SMITH I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything... L. NEIL SMITH The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of t... L. NEIL SMITH As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to tal... L. NEIL SMITH I can tell you right now, in my opinion, Pickens County gets a big F when it comes to their transpor... NEIL SMITH Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned... VERNON L. SMITH I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic tru... VERNON L. SMITH After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a ve... VERNON L. SMITH I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13. VERNON L. SMITH In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions an... VERNON L. SMITH Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined. VERNON L. SMITH After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary ... VERNON L. SMITH I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made wit... VERNON L. SMITH I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name. L. J. SMITH 'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can. L. J. SMITH I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nic... L. J. SMITH I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls. L. J. SMITH ROY L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, co... VERNON L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troo... THOMAS L. SMITH In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protectio... THOMAS L. SMITH ROY L. SMITH Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ROY L SMITH It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insu... THOMAS L. SMITH Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals L Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that. L Your cynical ways define your soul
as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter... L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely L A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. L. L. NASH L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. L. L. HENDERSON L. L. HENDREN NEIL KINNOCK I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour. VINCE NEIL I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire aft... VINCE NEIL With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless. VINCE NEIL I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with t... VINCE NEIL I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own i... VINCE NEIL Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just... VINCE NEIL Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a ... VINCE NEIL NEIL PEART For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the... NEIL MACGREGOR TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts... NEIL POSTMAN I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This... NEIL YOUNG NEIL GAIMAN When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. NEIL DIAMOND I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me... NEIL YOUNG I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so... NEIL YOUNG Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you'... NEIL YOUNG I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else. NEIL YOUNG I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life. NEIL YOUNG I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. NEIL YOUNG When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you&... NEIL YOUNG Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ... NEIL YOUNG One new feature or fresh take can change everything. NEIL YOUNG To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a s... NEIL YOUNG The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the un... NEIL YOUNG The thing about my music is, there really is no point. NEIL YOUNG We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets... NEIL YOUNG I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. NEIL YOUNG When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in t... NEIL YOUNG Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done. NEIL YOUNG Rock and roll is here to stay. NEIL YOUNG Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. NEIL YOUNG As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points ... NEIL YOUNG It's better to burn out, than to fade away. NEIL YOUNG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL MARSHALL NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL GAIMAN NEIL GAIMAN They started the meeting out by saying, "Everybody please take your seats"NEIL LECKMAN NEIL GAIMAN I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my s... NEIL CROSS For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ... NEIL TENNANT In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. NEIL INNES NEIL GAIMAN The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry ... NEIL MACGREGOR A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an i... NEIL MACGREGOR NEIL MARSHALL NEIL GAIMAN NEIL GAIMAN NEIL MORRISSEY NEIL GAIMAN NEIL GAIMAN NEIL STRAUSS NEIL GAIMAN NEIL GAIMAN NEIL GAIMAN Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial... NEIL POSTMAN NEIL GAIMAN NEIL ARMSTRONG NEIL GAIMAN Better to burn out than rust out. NEIL YOUNG NEIL SIMON These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for... 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We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a preside... 
I shudder to think what Republican presidential contenders will say in a 2016 primary to win over vo... 
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thoug... 
There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the va... 
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 
Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting... 
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don&#... 
A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuver... 
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he... 
What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that sa... 
Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not ... 
Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. 
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees th... 
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t... 
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and lo... 
Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that ... 
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth... 
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you t... 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy? 
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything. 
...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... . he isn't like this writer or actor or comedian... - YOU FUCKING LIAR. 
When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is ... 
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning... 
I ask myself what he would want a presidential candidate or a president to do at this time in our co... 
Voting third-party in 2016 meant choosing The Green Party's Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party... 
Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win. 
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relev... 
Being president isn't anything like reality TV. It's not about sending insulting tweets or m... 
That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn&... 
There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that. 
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. 
Whatever you say it is, it isn't. 
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. 
The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party o... 
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we... 
Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. 
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. 
Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new. 
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out. 
Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to tak... 
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. 
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smi... 
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share... 
Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't. 
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't. 
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that ... 
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vis... 
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that&#... 
I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of th... 
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we ... 
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the ... 
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and... 
When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which mean... 
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place name... 
I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia. 
Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language. 
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. 
Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertaria... 