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Dan Poynter

"Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell."

Source : "The Future Of Children's Books". "All Things Considered" with Mary Louise Kelly, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

Dan Poynter

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“The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.”
“If you think you are only strong if you can lift a certain number, whatever that number is, you will feel pretty weak most of the time. Strength is not a data point; itâ€™s not a number. Itâ€™s an attitude.”
“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.”
“It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”
“I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.”
“Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.”
“People cannot hurt you without your permission.”

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