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How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”

“Spoken like one who has never known the ecstasy of holding a still-beating heart in her hand.


Seth Grahame-Smith

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SETH GODIN 'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered...
SETH MACFARLANE Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the t...
SETH GODIN A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...
SETH GODIN The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
SETH GODIN I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
SETH MACFARLANE My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improve...
SETH GODIN One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabular...
SETH GODIN At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
SETH GODIN The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...
SETH GODIN True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will...
SETH BROWN God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pre...
SETH GODIN And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p...
SETH GODIN Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to ...
SETH SHOSTAK When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics...
SETH SHOSTAK It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormo...
SETH SHOSTAK My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH ROLLINS Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource ...
SETH SHOSTAK It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contr...
SETH SHOSTAK The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
SETH GODIN I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designer...
SETH GREEN At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w...
SETH MACFARLANE A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in o...
SETH SHOSTAK Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredib...
SETH NUMRICH I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something...
SETH ROGEN Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace ...
SETH SHOSTAK For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment...
SETH BERKLEY The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search...
SETH SHOSTAK 'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love t...
SETH SHOSTAK The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop f...
SETH BERKLEY I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the wor...
SETH BERKLEY When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course...
SETH BERKLEY Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has d...
SETH BERKLEY I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, i...
SETH BERKLEY We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3...
SETH BERKLEY Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are ...
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