"There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what."
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"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
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"Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music."
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"About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort."
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"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."
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"It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one."
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"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb."
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"It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book."
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"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
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"Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom."
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"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."
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"Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different."
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"“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go."
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"...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page."
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"Nature's great book is written in mathematics."
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"This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture."
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"The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment."
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"If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free"
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"People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones') are even bloodier than I am."
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"I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind."
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