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"Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers."
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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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Personal Development
"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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Personal Development
"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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Personal Development
"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."
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"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
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"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
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Personal Development
"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
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"Take the time every day to teach and train yourself how to ask empowering questions. Those who ask the right questions change the world."
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"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher."
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"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."
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"So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS."
Entertainment
"Knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances."
Time
"After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?"
Time
"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
Ambition
"True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed."
Philosophy
"Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth."
Career
"Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."You do remember your father?"No. I remember yours."
Parenting
"Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits."
Enthusiasm
"For a different woman, a different relationship, a different situation, gentleness might have been the proper, the only approach-but not for this woman, in these circumstances. The only thing that will cleanse Claire (and reassure her: look at what she says at the end of it. She feels safe again, having felt the power and violence in him) is violence. And-the most important point here-Jamie pays attention to what she wants, rather than proceeding with his own notion of how it should be, even though it's a sensible notion and the one most people would have."
Relationship
"It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers."
History
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