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"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."
"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge."
"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."
"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."
"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."
"One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics."
"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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