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"Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one."
"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."
"It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life."
"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England."
"The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end."
"The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did."
"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."
"Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups."
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one."
"No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters."
"Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend."
"Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve."
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
"It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone."
"If you find yourself loving any pleasure more than your prayers, any book better than the Bible, any house better than the house of the Lord, any table better than the Lord's table, any persons better than Christ, or any indulgence better than the hope of heaven – be alarmed."
