"Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on high. It is the thing that legitimizes language and makes language real. You never think that it's actually compiled by living, breathing nerds like me. When you realize that it's compiled by people, it becomes a different thing, a different kind of document."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Kory Stamper

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs.”
“Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.”
“There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world”
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.”
“Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.”
“I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.”
“Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary.”
“By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.”

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