"It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life."

Education, Books, Necessity, Life, Learning

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"It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life."

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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

John Green, American Author

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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"Study the past if you would define the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Education, Books, Chance, First, May

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Education, Ability

"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Education, Learning, Law, Struggle, Persistence

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

Chris Matakas, Australian Motivational Speaker

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"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Education, Literacy, Youth, Culture, Media

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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

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"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

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"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

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"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

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"In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

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