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Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. ↗

— Julius Erving

#effort #else #faced #find #going

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened. ↗

— Julius Erving

#adult life #began #biographies #books #fiction

None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own. ↗

— Anita Borg

#devices #just #keep #lives #many

Women will change the corporation more than we expect. ↗

— Anita Borg

#corporation #expect #more #than #will

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#always #i #imagined #kind #library

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside. ↗

— Julius Erving

#deal #downside #good #got #know

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#causes #coronation #effects #infinite #literature

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think. ↗

— Julius Erving

#crowd #daring #encourages #i #i think

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

#commands #concept #fashion #intellectual #law

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud. ↗

— Wes Borland

#brand new #discussions #down #funniest #good