Charles Scribner, Jr. Quotes

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

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• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

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• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

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• There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.

  

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• I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

  

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• We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.

  

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• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

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• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  

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• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

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• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

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• You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

  

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• I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

  

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• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  

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• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

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• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

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• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

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• Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

  

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• Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

  

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• Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.

  

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• ...What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

  

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• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

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• I don't get no respect.

  

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• Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

  

  Charles Scribner, Jr.
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