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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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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."
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"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
Books
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
Education
"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
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
Education
"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
Fact
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
Family
"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
Sex
"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
Education
"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
Lie
"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
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