Melvil Dewey Quotes
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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I have no literary fears.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.
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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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I got stopped in front of the bras in Victoria's Secret; I get interrogated in airport bathrooms. I went to South Africa in January to see my family, and even there people would stop me and ask, "Sasha, who's A?" Even my grandma.
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For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.
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There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.
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Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
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It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.
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Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
