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"Some New Tactical Reflections".
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Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

— L. Neil Smith

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish." in the context of ""Some New Tactical Reflections"." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "L. Neil Smith" (Quotes) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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About L. Neil Smith

Lester Neil Smith III (12 May 1946 – 27 August 2021), also known by his nickname El Neil, was a libertarian science fiction author and political activist, whose works include the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probablity Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel.