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Letter "O" » on the books
«What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.»
Author: Christopher Isherwood
(Author, Dramatist, Satirist, Writer)
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bland, coincidence, go around, on the books, the books
«I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.»
«I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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«A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.»
Author: Thomas Kempis
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Books
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«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.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
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«The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
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«Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Reading
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«I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
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