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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or…
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so…
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
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G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.
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This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green…
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
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"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And…
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Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
— Ray Bradbury
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Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,…
— Richard Armour
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Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old…
— Ray Bradbury
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly…
— Alberto Manguel
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The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it…
— Daniel Handler
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Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
— Geraldine Brooks
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am…
— Christopher Marlowe
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The Internet has made book burning impossible and redundant at the same time.
— John Alejandro King
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