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Stan Lee

"Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages."

-- Stan Lee

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“The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic”

Source : Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.149, Penguin
“I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls.”
“It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.”
“But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.”
“I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.”
“I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us.”
“America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.”
“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature”

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