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«If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.»
Author: Pete Seeger
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«However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?»
«Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.»
Author: Buddha
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«If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.»
«If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.»
«A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.»
«'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.»
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