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“Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.”

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Joe Queenan is a journalist known for his wit and sharp commentary on popular culture. Born on November 3, 1950, he has made a name for himself with his distinctive voice and insightful analysis of the media landscape. more

“The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.”

“People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that the objects themselves are sacred, not just the stories they tell. We believe that books possess the power to transubstantiate, to turn darkness into light, to make being out of nothingness.”

People Needs Believe Book Stories Light Turns Darkness Objects Sacred Versions Copies Nothingness

Author:Joe Queenan

“A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.”

Tales Mice

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.”

Thinking Motivational Faces Your Face Youthfulness

Book:Look Eleven Years Younger

Source: Look Eleven Years Younger

“A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.”

Ifs Needs Persons Shows Business Willing Evidence Sufficient Loan Bankers

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.”

Men Young Impossible Young Man Inexperience Older Man

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.”

Leader Exercise Essentials Capacity Increase Defined

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”

Humans Leisure Consumption Tourism Circulation

Book:Society Of The Spectacle

Source: Society Of The Spectacle

“Idealism and realism meet in the actual.”

Realism Idealism Idealism And Realism

Book:Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

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