L. Neil Smith Quotes
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.
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I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it, too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.
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We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
