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book june third
I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book men dedication
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. Stephen Jay Gould
book design raw-materials
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.
book bucks cut degree fuel helping large offset people percent revenue talking
To a large degree it (the cut in commissions) is helping offset the fuel prices. You're talking about some big bucks there. That's 3 percent of revenue to people who book 80 percent of your flights. Ray Neidl
book books-and-reading bring certain comic guy mythical sort
Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.
commonplace depends unnatural
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. Arthur Conan Doyle
common invited
If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.
common field goal great kick kicked position second trying win
They were in great position to kick the field goal and win the game, ... For a second there, I thought about scooping it and trying to score, but my common sense kicked in. It was like, 'Get the ball. Live another down.'
common file move trend
This has been a common trend for years as file sharers move between services.
common difficult finances governor personal resembling solar touch
It's more difficult for a governor to have anything resembling a common touch if their personal finances are in a different solar system.
common eight hampton lose people six waters
It's more common than you'd think, unfortunately. In the waters of Hampton Roads, we probably lose six to eight people a year.
common gaps looking notes sitting taking teach traffic watching
It's very common to see them sitting by a roadside watching traffic go by. It's speculation, but we think they're taking notes mentally, looking for gaps and when they occur. And they probably teach it to their pups.
common four life serious small three year
It's very common in the first year of life, even in the first three or four years of life. It's more serious in the first year of life because small infants can get dehydrated very fast.
common industry reference
It's very common in the bookselling industry to reference the Times list.
truth hideous
The truth--a hideous spectacle! Conrad Aiken
truth honesty lying
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. Sydney J. Harris
truth mistake believe
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson
truth jigsaw-puzzles together
Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable. Sigmund Freud
truth merit telling-the-truth
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
truth science fool
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. Neil Gaiman
truth lines way
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. John Tillotson
truth lying men
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
truth men use
All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well. John Stuart Blackie