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Books don't need batteries.

Books Don't Need Batteries
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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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Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.
Culture Rule Organization Behaves
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Across Ages Books Civilization
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Advances Book Date Enduring
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Book Heart Close Articulate
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Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

Child Favorite Feels Impossible
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Always Back Been Book
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Books Children Few Purpose
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books Funny Little Pieces
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
Books Those Which Lift
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

About Between Books I Think
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

About Books I Love Journeys
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Blessed Books Mind Chloroform
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Book Concept Could History
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Books Everything Friends I Love
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Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Biggest Biggest Influence Books Comic
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Articles Concerning Flood Grateful
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I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Books Full Go Life
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

About Books Carefully Fine
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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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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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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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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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