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L. Neil Smith

"Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for ***** brownies."

-- L. Neil Smith

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“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
“God says to us, "Pray, because I have all kinds of things for you; and when you ask, you will receive. I have all this grace, and you live with scarcity. Come unto me, all you who labor. Why are you so rushed? Where are you running now? Everything you need, I have."”
“Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.”

Source : H. A. Rey, Margret Rey (2009). “Curious George”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.”
“I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.”
“I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it.”
“Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.”

Source : Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage
“To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.”

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