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I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard. ↗

— Andy Stern

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If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#classes #clear #course #doing #going

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#convention #four #i #nations #peace

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#calls #devotion #his #man #many

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#eyes #find #fit #follow #forgive

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#apart #called #fame #gods #him

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#ascending #endless #endless series #happily #leading

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine. ↗

— James Stewart

#belonged #called #central #central park #diamond