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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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Personal Development
"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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Personal Development
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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Personal Development
"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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Personal Development
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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Personal Development
"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
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Personal Development
"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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Personal Development
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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Personal Development
"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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Personal Development
"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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Personal Development
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Death
"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
Creativity
"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
Education
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
College
"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
Lie
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
Education
"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
Fact
"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
Mistake
"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
College
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
Education
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