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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

• To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Doubt
  • Conscience
  • Consequence

• First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Decision
  • Term
  • Entrepreneur

• 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

• Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

  

  William Powell
  • Long
  • Black
  • Military

• With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.

  

  Alicia Ostriker
  • Poets
  • Submission
  • Unlearn

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

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Cracks
  • Librarian
  • Dealer