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There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
Mary Ellen Chase
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Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Anthony Trollope
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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Philip Schaff
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read'.
Hilaire Belloc
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
bell hooks
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The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck
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Dreams are…illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
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When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.
Mary MacLane
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In... the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith
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All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Salman Rushdie
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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You win in battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by knowing the enemies' timing, and this using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
All the five books are chiefly concerned with timing. You must train sufficiently to appreciate all this.
Miyamoto Musashi
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I don't care for philosophers in books. They are always bores. A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
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Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.
Wole Soyinka
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Bill Manders:
I, too, am pro life but I'm also pro choice, do you understand what I say when I mean that.
Sharron Angle:
I'm pro responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
Bill Manders:
Is there any reason at all for an abortion?
Sharron Angle:
Not in my book.
Bill Manders:
So, in other words, rape and incest would not be something?
Sharron Angle:
You know, I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
Sharron Angle
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He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."
Pliny the Younger
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Alan Rickman
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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall
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A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
Dawn Powell
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni
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A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis
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Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
Joyce Carol Oates
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