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"It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind." »Barbara Hall
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"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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"While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at." »Oscar Wilde
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"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never." »Edna Ferber
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""Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace." »Austin Farrar
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." »Francis Bacon
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." »Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964
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"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." »S. I. Hayakawa
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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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"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one." »James Goldsmith
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"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer." »Real Live Preacher
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once." »Cyril Connolly
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." »Mark Twain
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." »Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely." »Hesketh Pearson
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"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion
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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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"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't." »William Shakespeare
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"One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life." »Real Live Preacher
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"For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens." »Joseph Brodsky
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"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method." »Jack Kerouac
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"Art and science have their meeting point in method." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." »Burton Hills
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"The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing." »Boerhaave
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