Quotern

Quotern

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles - a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

-- Alberto Manguel

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I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

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The book and I secret ourselvesBehind the paneled door.We merge our thoughts in retrospectOf ancient mystic lore.We spend a pleasant quiet hour,Nor know it passed us by...The easy chair, the shaded lamp,A well-loved book and I.

-- Edna Moore Schultz

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You will never win if you never begin.

-- Helen Rowland

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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.

-- Samuel Johnson

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I'm not unmindful of a man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.

-- Frank Sinatra

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As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

-- Ravi Gomatam

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But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

-- Christian Bale

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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

-- Michel de Montaigne

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To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

-- Henry Charles Carey

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