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"You don't have
to burn books to
destroy a culture.
Just get people to
stop
reading them."
[RAY DOUGLAS
BRADBURY] |
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"The lessons taught in
great books are misleading. The commerce in
life is rarely so simple and
never so just." [ANITA
BROOKNER] |
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"The worth of a book is
to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
[JAMES BRYCE] |
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"What we become depends
on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The
greatest university of all is the collection of books."
[THOMAS CARLYTE] |
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"Learning is acquired by
reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the
knowledge of
the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the
various editions of them."
[PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE CHESTERFIELD]
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"A room without books is
like a body without a soul." [MARCUS TULLIUS
CICERO]
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"When you
read a
classic you do not
see in the book more
than you did before.
You see more in you
than there was
before."
[CLIFTON PAUL
FADIMAN] |
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"Life is a library owned
by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of
them were written for him."
[HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK] |
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"I can tell you,
honest
friend, what to believe: believe
life; it
teaches better than book or
orator."
[JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]
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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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