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Shneur Zalman
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
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Ronald Reagan
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
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Vartan Gregorian
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
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Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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John Donne
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Ezra Pound
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Anonymous
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Bertrand Russell
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Edward C. Moroney, Jr.
Work hard, live cheap, and save your money.
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Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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James Earl Jones
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
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