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People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
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I wrote a book called 'Yoga for Regular Guys.' We made the title of the book funny, but it was actually super… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
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[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image