Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
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Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
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