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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. — Bertrand Russell
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is… — Bruce Schneier
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough… — Dilys Laing
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its… — Samuel Johnson
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. — William Wordsworth
Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page. — William C. Bryant
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding… — Lewis Grizzard
Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him. — Albert Einstein
At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done. — Thomas a Kempis
Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans - the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of… — George W. Bush
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. — Ludwig von Mises
I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms… — Harry Browne
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too… — Alan Dershowitz
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent… — Shimon Peres
You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read. — Wallace D. Wattles
Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues. — Wallace D. Wattles
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a… — Oliver Sacks
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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