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- Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher Von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men
- Henry B. Adams
- Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
- Arthur Schoenhauer
- Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
- Henry C. Rogers
- A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."
- Paxton Hood
- In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
- S. I. Hayakawa
- Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
- Sir John Denham
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