"To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not"
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"No girl was ever ruined by a book."
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"Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book."
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"Managers of hospitals, over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served."
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"I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations."
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"Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea."
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"At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your parents signed for you and vouched for you. Then after you had it for a little while you could decide if you were interested in taking lessons or you could also get your own gear. Or you could turn that instrument in for another one and try something else. So that's how I got my hands on the guitar."
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"I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid."
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"It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors."
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"Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something."
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"Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book."
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"The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal."
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"Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me."
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"How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know."
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"College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books."
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"God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his."
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"He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book."
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"The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world."
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"Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it."
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"Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."
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