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- I live for books.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Emerson
- The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- John Burrough
- Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- The Buddha
- A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
- All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
- Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
- It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
- Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth
- Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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