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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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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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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I would put myself towards left of center.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by Faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
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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.
