"Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can"
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"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."
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"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
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"Don't join the book burners!"
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"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."
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"Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God."
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"The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will."
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"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."
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"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them."
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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
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"My alma mater was books, a good library."
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"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
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"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
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"I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished."
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"Never memorize what you can look up in a book."
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"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."
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"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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