"It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner."

-- Anne Fadiman

#Long Quotes #Library Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Let the losers worry about losin.”
“Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.”
“That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.”
“Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.”
“I think in Russia's case, they want to have a Ukraine that is pro-Russian, Russia-friendly, a government they can work with. And yet, by invading the country and taking part of the territory, they've produced a more nationalist, more Western-oriented, more unified Ukraine than ever existed before.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.”

Source : "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.
“I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.”
“There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.”

Source : "Goodbye to Law Reviews," Virginia Law Review, Nov. 1936

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