Rachel Toor: I can tell you, after years of rejecting manuscripts submitted to university presses, most people's ideas aren't that brilliant.
Julian Gough: As we all know, lax writing practices earlier this decade led to irresponsible writing and irresponsible reading.
Walter Benjamin: I'd like to write something that comes from things the way wine comes from grapes.
1st Batallion, 5th Marines: Have something short, but important to say. What you say here will be remembered.
Matt Raymond: That's right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter's inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress.
John Mayer: Why do I want to invent more reasons to have haters?
Kathleen Parker: Giving up being liked is the ultimate public sacrifice.
Michael Lewis: I like the feeling of knowing that nobody is trying to reach me.
Samantha Power: There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.
Dave Eggers: It's just sort of like: 'Why does everything have to be on the screen?'
Jeffrey Zeldman: This thing. If numbers are your strategy to win at this thing, you've already lost. This thing is not a game. There is no winning. There is only mattering. If you don't understand that, you aren't making a difference.
Cormac McCarthy: Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Atul Gawande: Let us look for the positive deviants.
Merlin Mann: Once you've seen The Wire, you're spoiled for life.
Anne Frank: As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.
Jason Baptiste: If you spent the money on an original iPod in 2001 on Apple stock ($499), you would have $14,513.78 today.
1st Batallion, 5th Marines: $500 can build things that change how people live.
Rory Stewart: Without music, time has a very different quality.
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