Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.


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The people we've got now, they're tired of losing. They've got the winning mentality now.
ALEX NEAL
That was the easiest to score from.
ALEX NEAL
It was kind of a street brawl.
ALEX NEAL
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
NEAL STEPHENSON
The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislat...
NEAL BOORTZ
Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to den...
NEAL BOORTZ
Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivi...
NEAL BOORTZ
It's going to be very competitive. That's why you have to rely on your innovation and your speed.
NEAL HUNTER
This is still a very marketable crop. Almost every year you have something
NEAL FISHER
followers of Karl Marx
NEAL BOORTZ
Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.
RICHARD NEAL
(Myers) did a good job on the inside. She and Julie Hayes limited the touches that Jackie Weaver got...
DALE NEAL
I want to be very careful I don't minimize the event because if it's your car or your home, it's not...
CHRIS NEAL
A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the po...
NEAL BOORTZ
They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, cert...
NEAL STEPHENSON
It could be a very hazardous job. You are going up and down ladders all day and sometimes climbing o...
CHRIS NEAL
Flood stage is at 13 feet. At 14 feet it starts overflowing into the vineyards. When it reaches 15 f...
NEAL O'HAIRE
The mosquitoes become infected, and you can create a reservoir of West Nile virus in that local regi...
NEAL COHEN
It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
NEAL STEPHENSON
Sometimes we just get in these little modes ... where we don't hustle as much. Then we get that one ...
CONNIE NEAL
She skated great, but emotionally it was a very low-key thing. It's coming up again.
NEAL MARSHALL
Warmer than normal Januarys have a penchant for producing surprisingly strong payroll numbers.
NEAL SOSS
These regulations aren't about stopping a Wal-Mart. These regulations are about making Stafford a be...
NEAL CUNNINGHAM
Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say thi...
DIANE NEAL
Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently a...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything ...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepi...
NEAL STEPHENSON
The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness
NEAL STEPHENSON
Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
NEAL STEPHENSON
All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together,looking for the America they alway...
NEAL STEPHENSON
The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right n...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relati...
NEAL STEPHENSON
All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or somet...
NEAL STEPHENSON
When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technol...
NEAL STEPHENSON
The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in ano...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done.
NEAL STEPHENSON
He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading sta...
NEAL STEPHENSON
It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking through his magic sight. “Five g...
NEAL STEPHENSON
..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this pla...
NEAL STEPHENSON
When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
NEAL STEPHENSON
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your...
NEAL STEPHENSON
This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What'...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
NEAL STEPHENSON
Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big ol...
NEAL STEPHENSON