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“The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.”
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“The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.”
Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.58
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“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”
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“I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.”
Source : Dylan Thomas (1995). “Dylan Thomas, the complete screenplays”
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“This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.”
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“My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.”
Source : "Football Italia", July 01, 2007.
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“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”
Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor