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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't… — Conan O'Brien
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. — Charles Spurgeon
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much.… — Irving Fisher
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles. — Glenn Frey
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances… — Thomas Gray
Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the… — Terry Pratchett
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. — James Anthony Froude
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought.… — Adolf Hitler
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it… — Annie Dillard
It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back… — C.S. Lewis
It certainly seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read about Heaven, because, after all, that's where we're going… — David Berg
Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone… — Gaylene Preston
The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins
When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home. — Max Lucado
It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works.… — George Woodward Warder
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. — Edna Ferber
Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works. — Roger Tory Peterson

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