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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I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.
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There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.
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Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
