"A room without books is like a life without meaning."
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"Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money."
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"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
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"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
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"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
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"On a certain day shall every soul come to plead for itself, and every soul shall be repaid according to its deeds; and they shall not be wronged."
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"When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do."
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"As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue."
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"Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas."
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"The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity."
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"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
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"To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself."
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"Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God."
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"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics."
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"Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can."
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"With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book."
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
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"There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'"
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"As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her."
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