Book Quotes
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt it, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.
