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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."	A. Whitney Griswold
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."	Abraham Lincoln
"[Book dedication:] To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible."	Al Jaffee
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored."	Albert Einstein
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."	Albert Einstein
"We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends."	Alfred A. Montapert
"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."	Anita Brookner
"A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend."	Author Unknown
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book."	Author Unknown
"Let books be your dining table, And you shall be full of delights Let them be your mattress And you shall sleep restful nights."	Author Unknown
"A dirty book is rarely dusty."	Author Unknown
"TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book."	Author Unknown
"If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions."	Author Unknown
"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that."	B. A. Billingsly
"During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books."	Bill Maher
"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept."	Carl Lotus Becker
"You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read."	Charles Jones
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face… one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."	Charles Langbridge Morgan
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."	Clifton Paul Fadiman
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