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John Naisbitt

Everybody talkin' 'bout Heaven ain't goin' there.
--Megatrends, quoting an old spiritual

Geoff Nicholson

...if my family had one virtue, it was that we didn't tell each other what we really thought. It saved an amazing amount of trouble.
--Bedlam Burning

Reinhold Niebuhr

History laughs at logic.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

It's hard to avoid the suspicion that a significant number of America's worst social problems would be alleviated by summoning the insurance industry's top managers to an economic summit, and then setting packs of wild dogs on them.
--Electrolite weblog entry 1/6/2003

Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error.

Nirvana

I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are now; entertain us.
--"Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nevermind

Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint: forever in debt to your priceless advice.
--"Heart-Shaped Box," In Utero

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Think of it as evolution in action.
--Oath of Fealty

Richard M. Nixon

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
--quoted in "The Edge," Portland Oregonian, July 4, 1995

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