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Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.
— William Thoms
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I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.…
— Clarence Thomas
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Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a…
— Richard Riordan
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What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we…
— Pete Hamill
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When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand…
— James A. Michener
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To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only…
— Dave Barry
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I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.
— James M. Loy
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I would read Playboy more often, but my glasses keep steaming up.
— George Burns
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The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.
— Howard Gossage
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Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
— Angela Lambert
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My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with...she read hers out and there were no surprises...1 George Clooney...2…
— Michael McIntyre
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Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
— Alessandro Baricco
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To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.
— Peter Rosegger
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Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk ... Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read it or not, unless…
— Roger Adams
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I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and…
— Charles Lane Poor
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One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come…
— Bennett Cerf
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If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.
— J. Richard Clarke
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
— Nan Goldin
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