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"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"	Omar Khayyám
"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"[A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed."	Joseph Wood Krutch
"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances."	Jay Leno
"Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half-especially if he has a teenage daughter."	Guy Albert Lombardo
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."	Sir John Lubbock
"Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author."	Martin Luther
"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
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."	Julius Henry Marx
"If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite."	Dennis McKinsey
"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book."	Thomas Merton
"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."	John Milton
"A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books."	François Maurice Mitterrand
"There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind."	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends."	Alfred A. Montapert
"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
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it."	Edward P. Morgan
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