"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."

Joineriana on books - reading
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever."

Tupper, Martin on books - reading
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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

Lincoln, Abraham on books - reading
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Hemingway, Ernest on friends and friendship
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

Quayle, Dan on space   

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."

Pascal, Blaise on space   

"The sky is no longer the limit."

Nixon, Richard M. on space   

"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."

Miller, Henry on space   

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."

Hoyle, Sir Fred on space   

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"God does not play dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on gambling
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Einstein, Albert on the future
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Adams, Douglas on service
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"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on absence
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning."

Allenbaugh, Eric on adversity
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"Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases."

Conant, James B. on propaganda
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"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."

Gomez, Foka on belief
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"The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object."

Lewes, George Henry on magic   

"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."

Burroughs, William S. on magic
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Phillpotts, Eden on abundance
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"Every day use your magic to be of service to others."

Wieder, Marcia on service
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Clarke, Arthur C. on vision
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"The power of thought, the magic of the mind."

Byron, Lord on thoughts and thinking
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"We must not let daylight in upon the magic."

Bagehot, Walter on magic
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"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on men
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"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."

Proverb, Arabian on candor
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Acton, Lord on argument
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on insanity
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"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."

Beecham, Sir Thomas on music
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"Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend."

Dunphy, Elizabeth on things and little things
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