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book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Charles Dickens
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book easy easy-to-get
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healing good-friend
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
book reading fire
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!
space long radiation
I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage). Charles Stross
space water people
As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything. Alan Watts
space giving people
I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself. Akon
space earth feels
You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space. Chogyam Trungpa
space long people
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high. Chinua Achebe
space musician
You've got to create the space, then fill it. Chick Corea
space deserve
You deserve to take up space. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
space bigs knows
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. David Hockney
space west open-spaces
I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
chairs hops
Started from the chair hop now we here. Bill Gates
chairs deck simply
This may simply be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Michael Greenberger
chairs musical
There's a lot of musical chairs going on.
chairs deck proposal
A revenue-neutral proposal is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
chairs grill met people pull sit table wait wander wonderful
Pull out your table and chairs and get the grill going, then just sit back and wait for people to wander over to you. We've met so many wonderful people over the years that way.
chairs three
We went through like three or four. We just really wanted to get the chairs right.
chairs men tables today
Everything we have today is donated. We have men with charcoal grills, we have tables and chairs donated. We have foods, drinks.
chairs middle comfortable
When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair. Ani Difranco
chairs country honestly intelligence laws redress shall sit
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. Robert Green Ingersoll