"In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for."

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Source : Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

Steve Leveen

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“I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated.”

Source : "Corner Office: Republic Records Honchos Monte & Avery Lipman Discuss Jennifer Lawrence's 'Hunger Games' Smash and Defend 'The Voice'". Interview with Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. December 15, 2014.
“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”
“There is great force hidden in a gentle command.”
“When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.”
“I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals and people, which is against the spirit of Islam. While I stand by the truths that he spoke, I must condemn in the strongest terms the manner in which those truths were represented.”
“I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.”
“Nothing is hopeless that is right.”
“That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.”

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