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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about. — Benjamin Carson

We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust. — Craig Newmark

People will come to your site because you have good compelling content. You need to hit it from all angles: blog posts, articles, graphs, data, infographics, interactive content - even short pictures when you Tweet. — Chris Bennett

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me. — Ernest Hemingway,

advertising or PR, which gives a short burst of traffic, search engine optimization can increase traffic to your site for months or years. — Jay Conrad Levinson

Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee
no word on who will be the neck. — Amy Poehler

Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage or on film. This isn't as straightforward as it might seem. A designer will either present you with shelves lined with gilt-tooled library sets, the sort of clubland books one can rent by the yard as decor, or he or she will send out for some junk books from the nearest second-hand bookshop and think that those will do. Another short cut is to order in a cargo of remaindered books so that you end up with a shelf so garish and lacking of character it bears about as much of a relationship to literature as a caravan site does to architecture. A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped to the foot. — Alan Bennett

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. — Jane Gardam

Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem. — Ma Jun

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma — Alan Sugar

I'm here to take him into custody and deliver him to the Council. (Celena)
Well, that sucks. Bank robbery, handing out the passwords for the Dark-Hunter Web site, carjacking, mugging, cats mixing with dogs, and now this ... writing a short story. High crimes all. You get the rope and we'll hang him for it. God forbid the whole twelve subscribers of that magazine should actually read a fictional story and think it real. (Rafael) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays. — Christopher Meloni

Maybe there weren't any grown-ups, only people who had worked hard and also got lucky and were slightly out of their depth, all of us doing the best job we could, which is all we can really hope for. — Neil Gaiman

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house. — Ann Bridge

Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. — Iyanla Vanzant

When I first started 'Humans of New York,' I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, but the photography just started growing so fast that I didn't have time to make them anymore. — Brandon Stanton

He was explicit sex, personified.
I was hungered curiosity, caged.
And as long as I held onto the key, my heart would remain unscathed. — K.M. Golland

We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski put it, we see further because we "stand on the shoulders"5 of the previous generation. The danger of such a position is that we can forget to put our own feet on the ground. — Douglas Rushkoff

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music. — Tom Waits

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for ... describing a scene will be found to be very small. — Elizabeth Bowen