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Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

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• Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • People
  • Die
  • Confrontation

• Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Seedlings

• Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

  

  K. P. Yohannan

• Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Bands
  • Blamed
  • Cohorts

• Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Earth
  • Paradise
  • Dubrovnik

• The lie that started it all.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Lie

• My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

  

  Sean Covey
  • School
  • Dad
  • Struggle

• The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.

  

  George Will
  • Problem
  • Religion
  • Evidence

• Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

  

  Buwei Yang Chao
  • Life
  • Interruptions

• Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • World
  • Believe
  • Honest

• In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.

  

  Cheryl Burke
  • Dreams
  • Victory
  • Result

• It is no use for one to stand in the shade and complain that the sun does not shine upon him. He must come out resolutely on the hot and dusty field where all are compelled to antagonize with stubborn difficulties, and pertinaciously strive until he conquers, if he would deserve to be crowned.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Sun
  • Field
  • Difficulties

• The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mistake
  • Approach
  • Turns

• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Cracks
  • Decay

• Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Cracks
  • Librarian
  • Dealer