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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Book Only Page Read
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Books don't need batteries.

Books Don't Need Batteries
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You cannot open a book without learning something.
Book Cannot Learning Open
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Work hard, stay focused and learn your books.

Work hard Focused Learn Books
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Opinion Books Read
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Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things

Books Gifts Everybody's Favorite
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“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
Good Uneducated Book Man
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.
Culture Rule Organization Behaves
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.

Regard Book Best Gift
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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

Books Heaven World
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The place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Place Book These Knowledge
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Back Culture You Still
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If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Talent Book Well Always
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I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.

Advise Hand Useful Best
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Page Read Travel World
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We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like,

Mother Children Book Work
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Language Prose Cinema Movie
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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May books spread the world over!

May Books Spread World
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Book Dance Mind Every
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Political True Using Precious
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board.

Connect People Great Friend
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Been Book Day Got
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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Book Careful Full Get
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

Arrive Based Book City
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Be awesome! Be a book nut!
Book Nut Awesome
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life Exempt Good Tongues
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Wish Books People Else
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Some couples are just good on Facebook yet they don’t talk to each other in their homes.

Couple Good Talk Home
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

About Being Book Doing
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Grow Great Convinced Education
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Books Freedom Personal Discover
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“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.”

Problem Determination Carry Dream
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Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

After Because Books Bus
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Book Island More Pirate
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Act Book Bring Creative
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Angry Stuff Band Wail
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Me Metaphysics More Satisfies
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Book Drift Everything Nothing
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Book
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The real war will never get in the books.

War Receive Enemy
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Status Basically Wasting Financing
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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