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"Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever."
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"While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost."
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"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
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"All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books."
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"What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"The truth is that few know the truth."
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"Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living."
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"Regardless of one's age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful."
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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."
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"You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!"
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"What you know for me is just the little from the many."
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"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
Faith

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
Hope

"He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go."
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"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
Nature

"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen."
Travel

"To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain."
Politics

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."
Wisdom

"A good beginning makes a good end."
Wisdom

"People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was."
Life

"I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means."
Philosophy
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