11 books
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7 voters
Manuals
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Didn't you read the owner's manual?"
"Manual? See here, missy. I've been an etheric engineer since before you were born. I think I know how to handle a lift crystal."
"Evidently you aren't bright enough to do so, if you cannot read. We provide those manuals and specifications and procedures for a reason, you know.
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― The Aeronaut's Windlass
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
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The book of practical principles may look at first like a theoretical book. In a sense it is, as we have seen. It deals with the theory of a particular kind of practice. You can always tell it is practical, however. The nature of its problems gives it away. It is always about a field of human behavior in which men can do better or worse.
[How to Read a Book (1972), P. 190]
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