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'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Don't believe anything you read on the net.
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Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
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I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
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