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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Joseph Addison Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Groucho Marx From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
    Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Buddha Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Katherine Mansfield The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Ayn Rand There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • W. C. Fields W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Harold S. Geneen When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bruce Schneier ... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
    Schneier, Bruce (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • John Ruskin A book worth reading is worth buying.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • David Mitchell A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
    Number9Dream (2007) 365
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Boris Becker A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Jane Austen A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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