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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.: Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics, book 1, chapter 2
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A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you.: Ned Hepburn, Ned Hepburn Tumbler, 11-11-2011
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Life is one long process of getting tired.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the number of equations it contains.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), A Brief History of Time, 1988
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

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