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  • Jeremy Collier Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Barry Eisler Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Horace Mann Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
    The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Mitchell Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
    Wolkenatlas (2008) 357
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bono Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Don Marquis Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • William Blake Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Jesse Jackson Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Charles Lamb Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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