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L. Neil Smith Quotes

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

L. Neil Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 12, 1946

Topics

Truth Time Lie War Reality Long

Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.

Joe Kennedy III

Strength Future History People Land

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Joan Jett

Life Time Together Strong Physics

It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.

John Motson

Men Man Looks Two Involved Here

The world is hugely unequal.

Angus Deaton

World Unequal Hugely

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

Romola Garai

Women Children You Late Transition

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Martin Parr

Work World Photography Complicated

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.

Michael Leunig

People Regret Enough Look Back Done

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Dorothea Lange

Country No Country Ever Itself

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

Douglas Booth

Success Live Age Sometimes Image

I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Thinking Better Feel I Can Lifestyle

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Thomas Sowell

Black Over Noble Generations Leaders

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

Thomas Francis Meagher

History Death Me Law Know Crime