"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

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"Where liberty is, there is my country."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."

Malcolm X on education
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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"There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece."

Barry, Dave on humankind
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Abbey, Edward on patriotism
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"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

Stone, W. Clement on attitude
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"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fashion
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch."

Steele, Sir Richard on books - reading
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

James, William on attitude
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

Carter, Jimmy on multiculturalism
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on books - reading
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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

Asimov, Isaac on books - reading
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."

Aubrey, John on books - reading   

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

Bachelard, Gaston on books - reading
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"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library."

Baker, Nicholson on books - reading   

"When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

Baldwin, James on books - reading
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"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming."

Balfour, Arthur James on books - reading
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"Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."

Barrett, E.S. on books - reading
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"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."

Barrie, Sir James M. on books - reading
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"He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes."

Barrow on books - reading
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"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers."

Barstow, Stan on books - reading
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"Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!"

Baudelaire, Charles on books - reading   

"Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos."

Mackay, Eric on nature   

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

Lawrence, D. H. on speech
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"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

Lawrence, D. H. on flowers   

"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth."

Lawrence, D. H. on decadence
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on loyalty
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"It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on cleverness   

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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