"A good book is an education of the heart."
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"Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward."
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"Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is."
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"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher"
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"When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books."
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"The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
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"We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."
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"Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well."
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"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them."
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"Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books."
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"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy."
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"Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred books, or because it has been believed by many, or because it has been handed down by your ancestors. Accept and live only according to what will enable you to see truth face to face."
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"Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works."
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"When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood."
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"I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid."
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"I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money."
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"When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing."
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"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."
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