William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

William Dean Howells

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• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

  

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• There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.

  

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• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

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• I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that.

  

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• See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Today
  • Achievement
  • Confusion