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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked. — Leah Price
Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves. — Sheridan Hay
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were… — C.S. Lewis
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing… — Peter York
You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still… — Roscoe Bartlett
In spite of rising competition, Chr Hansen continues to play a key role in the majority of dairy products which can be found on the… — Lars Frederiksen
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt
You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else. — Jimi Hendrix
A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information… — Raymond Simard
Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being… — Suzanne Weyn
I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not… — Tim Heidecker
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because… — Alberto Manguel
Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. — William Wordsworth
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's… — Archibald MacLeish
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the… — Thomas Friedman
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. — Bill Gates
There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our… — Charles Caleb Colton
At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the… — Sloane Crosley
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs. — Miley Cyrus
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering. — Bruce Dickinson
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf. — Christopher Dodd
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and… — Joshua Foer

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