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"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. "	Umberto Eco
"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
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never read a book that is not a year old."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food."	Deciderius Erasmus
"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
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."	Edward Morgan Forster
"Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him."	Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."	Erich Fromm
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look."	Robert
"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all."	Lavina Goodell
"The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer."	Vartan Gregorian
"It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour."	Vartan Gregorian
"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
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