"They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read."
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"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
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"In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’."
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"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy."
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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
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"JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever"
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"One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God."
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"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
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"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
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"The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever."
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"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
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"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."
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"What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation."
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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."
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"Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved."
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"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
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"Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood."
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"There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think."
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"From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.""
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