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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all." »Neil Postman
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"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art." »John Ruskin
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"Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense." »Ingrid Weir
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"The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer." »Vartan Gregorian
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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?" »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible." »Al Jaffee
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"Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book." »Muriel Clark
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"The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron." »George Will
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"It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear." »Douglas Adams
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"You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering." »Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too." »Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5
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"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war." »Golda Meir
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't." »George Gordon Byron
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"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book." »Thomas Merton
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' (I found it) but 'That's funny ...'" »Isaac Asimov
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." »G. K. Chesterton
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"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true." »H. G. Wells
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"God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." »Katherine Paterson
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"For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it." »Malcom Gladwell
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"The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman." »Anonymous
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"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out." »Unknown
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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." »Franz Kafka
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"History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." »C. P. Snow
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