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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
    6186 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: books, inspirational, library
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
    6072 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books, reading
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
    tags: books, reading
    2333 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    tags: reading
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: humor, reading
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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought
    805 likes

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    Robertson Davies
    “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
    ― Robertson Davies
    tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading
    1000 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: books, reading
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
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  • #18
    “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
    ― Anne Herbert
    tags: book-lovers, books, money, reading
    980 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: books, censorship, reading
    645 likes

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    Judy Blume
    “[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censorship
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    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    “Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”
    ― Peter S. Jennison
    tags: books, censorship, education, illiteracy, reading
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    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    James Russell Lowell
    “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
    ― James Russell Lowell
    tags: books, reading
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    John Waters
    “It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, reading
    818 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."

    [As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, censorship, reading
    182 likes

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  • #27
    “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
    ― Mason Cooley
    tags: books
    476 likes

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  • #28
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Never read a book that is not a year old.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: reading-books
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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
    25175 likes

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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
    20179 likes



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