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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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Personal Development
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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Personal Development
"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
"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
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Personal Development
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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Personal Development
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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Personal Development
"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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Personal Development
"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."
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Personal Development
"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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Personal Development
"Books are a narcotic."
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"Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfAated but life-enhancing thoughts."
Travel
"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."
Curiosity
"It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships."
Ambition
"Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate."
Commitment
"Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom."
Life
"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."
Politics
"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."
Politics
"The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer."
Art
"I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths."
Religion
"It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?"
Morality
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