[Not everyone is thrilled with the change. Barbara Marcus, Scholastic's president, has a severe case of annoyance.] Best-seller lists are supposed to represent what America is reading, ... But the Times has chosen this moment in time to remove the phenomenon of our lives. Nothing has ever been as popular with families, adults, children, in the history of publishing, and it should be a giant celebration. Instead, the argument is being made that they are taking up too much room on the list.


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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th...
MARCUS AURELIUS
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Each day provides its own gifts
MARCUS AURELIUS
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air condi...
STANLEY MARCUS
I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the ...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE
People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are ...
MARCUS LEMONIS
I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn&...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is go...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of...
GREIL MARCUS
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A stren...
MARCUS BUCKINGHAM
These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lon...
MARCUS LUTTRELL
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...
MARCUS AURELIUS
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves w...
MARCUS GARVEY
I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things t...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain...
MARCUS BUCKINGHAM
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS
When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without root...
MARCUS GARVEY
Anger cannot be dishonest.
MARCUS AURELIUS
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
MARCUS GARVEY
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself ...
MARCUS GARVEY