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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Books Great Love Reading
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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Have Liberal Temperament Kind
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Acknowledge Being Being Smart Books
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Book Each Felt Like
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Big Book Cup Enough
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

American Bits Books Broadcast
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Best Better Book Consist
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Backs Best Books Covers
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Book Chapter First Honesty
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Am America Become Book
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I cannot live without books.

Books Cannot Live Without
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Preach Rid Sidetracked Stuff
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One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

Enough Goals Great Heart
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Book Bunch Economics Favor
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Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

Face Going Kickstarter Limited
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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Boom Difficult Focus Get
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I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.

Another Awards Boot Golden
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I think the definition of a book is changing.

Book Changing Definition Think
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Book Container Create Itself
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The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

About Author Book Key
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Books Done Lying Magic
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Admire Bandit Bear Book
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Books Lies Past PastTime
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This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

About Been Books Cases
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The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

Been Before Book Book Tour
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

After Become Books Collection
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I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

Go Rule Book Lead
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Books Chosen Enjoyable Few
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Books Emotions Master Presents
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

About Books Chapter Country
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Communicate Connect Efficiently Facebook
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

About Books Children Great
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The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Best Books Children Come
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I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Anybody Books Bought Bread
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Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Accomplish Built Company Connected
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At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Build Capacity Connect Doing
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In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

Addition Also Better Building
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

App Around Awesome Facebook
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For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Advantage Allowing Application Because
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The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Able Communicate Day Even
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I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

Dorm Ever Facebook Literally
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Book Lot Nice Obscure
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We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Books Create Hard Learn
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