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"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."
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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."
"Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers."
"No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading."
"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."
"Books were everywhere, lined neatly on shelves that went from floor to ceiling. The ceiling was two stories high, with an upper balcony that provided access to a second-floor gallery. The dazzling array of red, gold, green, and brown bindings was a feast for the eyes, while the wonderful smells of vellum, parchment, and pungent leather almost caused Amanda to salivate. An exquisite waft of tea leaves lingered in the air. For anyone who enjoyed the pursuit of reading, this place surely was paradise."
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"I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
"If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you."
"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."
"Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals."
"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
"The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny."
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