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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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Personal Development
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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Personal Development
"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
Being
"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
Art
"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."
Idea
"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."
Politics
"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
God
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."
Power
"One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."
Credit
"There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost."
Truth
"Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become."
Man
"When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic."
Science
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