L. Neil Smith Quotes
I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
L. Neil Smith
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. Skinner
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I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Zedong
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
Ted Cruz
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron Sorkin
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
Tammy Duckworth
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The government currently has unfunded liabilities surpassing $66 trillion.57 That’s $66 trillion in expected entitlement payouts over the coming decades for which there is no known revenue source.58 If nothing is done to scale back the entitlement state, then, according to a report by nonpartisan financial analyst Mary Meeker, “By 2025, entitlements plus net interest payments will absorb all—yes, all—of” government revenues.59
Yaron Brook
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
Bai Ling
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If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.
Aristotle
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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
Major Owens
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
L. Neil Smith
