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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However… — Mark Twain
You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you… — Tony Robbins
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love. — Sathya Sai Baba
Three keys to success: read, read, read. — Vladimir Lenin
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose… — Jonathan Haidt
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and… — Stephen Jay Gould
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory. — Stephen Jay Gould
The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything,… — Keith Haring
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to… — John Ruskin
I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are… — Ronald Reagan
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read,… — Arnold Bennett
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am… — George Burns
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H. L. Mencken
Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset. — Victor Borge
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it… — Winston Churchill

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