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I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.
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Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance. C. S. Lewis
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Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution. Donald Rumsfeld
decision want
We all want the freedom to make our own decisions. Daymond John
decision humans survived
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time. Andrew Weil
decision sometimes martyr
Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them. Chuck Hogan
decision advice president
President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. Chuck Grassley
decision helping individual
I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me. Alonzo Mourning
decision shy best-business
My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me. Anne Robinson
decision should rely
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that. Daniel Kahneman